Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Berlin P. 8316 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Alchemical (recipes) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-3: Descriptions of the use of stones in dyeing. |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic with Fayumic features |
Language/dialect notes: | Richter 2020: p. 154. TM (2/11/2018) |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 651 – 800 |
Date notes: | Dating from Richter 2020: p. 154. TM dates to VIII CE (18/10/2018); Formerly: 601-900 CE. Berlin 8331 (M115), from the same archive and in a similar hand, may be dated to post 685 CE. |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A14 |
Archive name: | Berlin Library |
State of edition: | Published. Edition by Tonio Sebastian Richter forthcoming |
Image: |
Form: | Rotulus |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 42 | Width: 9 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Erman (1904: p. 19) |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto (↓) and verso (→). Recto 47 lines of text, verso 18 lines of text. Verso written at 180 degrees to recto. |
Hand: | Hand E (Dosoo forthcoming) |
Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Place of purchase: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 332) |
Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Present Location: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
Collection History: | Purchased by Dr. Reinhardt in the Fayum (Erman 1895: p. 44); Beltz, probably mistakenly, claims that it was acquired from the antiquities market in Cairo in the same year (1983: p. 67). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 40 |
Collection website: | http://berlpap.smb.museum/ |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Stoyanova, Magdelena. “Written Sources on Coptic Dyeing.” Journal of Coptic Studies 10 (2008): 99-112. |
Translations: | Layton, Bentley. “The Soul as a Dirty Garment.” Le Muséon no. 91 (1978): 155–169, p. 166-169. |
General: | Erman, Adolf. “Ein koptischer Zauberer.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 33 (1895): 43–46. |
Trismegistos ID: | 112403 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
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 | ||||
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: | MPS 2/11/2018; EL (27/3/2019); KD (10/9/2019); KD (1/6/2020); KD (11/11/2020); KD (15/12/2020) |