Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 407 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | Original Use: Ro ll. 1-3: Fragment of an official letter in Arabic. Re-use: Vo ll. 1-24 Amulet against fever (?) containing the names of the Three Hebrew Youths and voces magicae (healing/protection). |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic with Fayumic features |
| Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
951 – 1100 |
| Date notes: | Mihálykó (2018: p. 53), yet “a dating into the 12th century or even later for the Coptic cannot be excluded” |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_407 |
| Form: | Rotulus |
| Material: | Paper |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16.5 | Width: 6.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Mihálykó (2018: p. 53) |
| Folding pattern: | 7 horizontal creases at c. 2cm from each other (Mihálykó 2018: p. 53) |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some damage from holes. Mihálykó suggests that these holes were intentional and “used to hang up the amulet” (2018: p. 53) |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto and verso, 3 lines recto, 24 lines verso. |
| Hand: | Irregular, quadrilinear, trimodal, informal, inconsistent. |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
| Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
156 |
| Collection website: | https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/papyri/view/p_kopt_407/# |
| Notes/Discussion: | Mihálykó (2018: p. 53) suggests that the holes are intentional and that the amulet was worn (although it was rolled). The three fragmentary original lines suggest that this was cut from a larger piece of paper containing a letter (Mihálykó 2018: p. 53). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Mihálykó, Ágnes. “5. Amulet Against Fever.” In Coptica Palatina. Koptische Texte aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung (P.Heid.Kopt.), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Alain Delattre, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Gesa Schenke, and Georg Schmelz, Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing (2018), p. 53-55, no. 5. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “’Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.’ The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic.” Vigiliae Christianae 78 (2024): p. 58-86, esp. p. 86. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 832291 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | EL (24/9/2018); KD (12/2/2019); MPS (28/2/2019); EL (31/7/2020); KD (13/6/2022); KD (2/2/2024) |