Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PCM 1 14 |
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. | 601 – 800 |
Date notes: | 7th to 8th century (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 225). 5th to 8th century according to TM 26/10/2016. Dieleman (2006) does not date the ostracon. |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
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. | 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. |
Trismegistos ID: | 642006 |
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” | 88 |
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 (26/10/2018); KD (7/12/2018); EL (29/3/2019); team (4/5/2020); MPS (12/1/2022); MPS (14/10/2022); KD (20/11/2023) |