Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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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.
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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
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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: | MPS 2/11/2018; EL (27/3/2019); KD (10/9/2019); KD (1/6/2020); KD (11/11/2020); KD (15/12/2020) |