Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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LACMA MA 80.202.214 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (unclear) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-14: Invocation for unclear purposes |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| 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. |
401 – 800 |
| Date notes: | TM 26/10/2016. Dieleman (2006) does not date the ostracon. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/collections.lacma.org-images/remote_images/ma-50733-WEB.jpg?Le8HbXg1uKYQPEDtbHvnrnz2JgvHmGIX |
| Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 18.8 | Width: 7.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Dieleman 2006: p. 20. Dimensions given on website as 6 x 6.8cm, but this appears to be for the wrong object. |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Incomplete, fragment of a plate. Top and right-hand part missing. |
| 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, 14 lines. |
| Hand: | Bilinear |
| Findspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Los Angeles, County Museum of Art |
| Collection History: | Gift of Jerome F. Snyder (Collection Website, 6/12/2018). Acquired by the LACMA on the 31st of December 1980 (personal communication with LACMA, information from internal museum database, 27/9/2022). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
1393 |
| Collection website: | https://collections.lacma.org/node/245077 |
| Notes/Discussion: | The numbering by Dieleman (LACMA 80.202.214) does not correspond with the number in TM (MA 80.202.192) although they reference his article as the key source. The object is currently (6/12/2018) listed on the collection website as M.80.202.213 (incorrectly described as “Ostracon with Demotic Inscription”), but appears in the past to have been listed as M80.202.214 (see e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ostracon_with_Coptic_Inscription_and_Figural_Depictions_LACMA_M.80.202.214.jpg). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | ★ Dieleman, Jacco. “A Coptic Magical Text from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.” Coptica 5 (2006): 20–31. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Love, Edward. "Apa Baula and The Destroyer: The Embedding of Efficacy in Figural Amulets/Deposits from Roman and Early Islamic Egypt", in Korshi Dosoo und Jean-Charles Coulon (eds.), Magikon Zōon: Magikon Zōon: Animal et magie dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge | Animal and Magic from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Paris-Orléans: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, 2022, 621-659. Martin Hernandez, Raquel, and Sofia Torallas Tovar. "The Use of the Ostracon in Magical Practice in Late antique Egypt. Magical handbooks vs. Material Evidence." Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 80 (2014): p. 796 no. 10. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 642006 |
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” |
88 |
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 (26/10/2018); KD (7/12/2018); EL (29/3/2019); team (4/5/2020); MPS (12/1/2022); MPS (14/10/2022) |