Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Berlin P. 8318 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-39: For good singing/speaking voice. |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 651 – 800 |
Date notes: | Almost certainly 651-800, since part of Berlin Library, all of which have similar hands (KD). 701-800 (Beltz 1983: p. 68). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A14 |
Archive name: | Berlin Library |
State of edition: | Published. No published image. New edition desirable. |
Image: |
Form: | Rotulus |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 48.3 | Width: 23.4 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Original height was ca. 70 cm. Maximum surviving dimensions (EL from autopsy 22/11/2019); 48 x 22.5 (Beltz 1983: p. 68); 49 x 23 (Erman 1904: p. 9). |
Folding pattern: | 3 horizon and 1 vertical creases clear from damage (EL from autopsy 22/11/2019); 6 (?) horizontal and 2 (?) vertical creases (KD from image) |
State of preservation: | Complete, although broken into three fragments, the bottom left-hand corner is lost, and there is damage along some creases. |
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 (↓), 41 surviving lines. |
Hand: |
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. 68). |
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: | The verso is a continuation, according to TM (11/10/2018), but this is not visible on the papyrus itself, whose back is hidden by paper. It seems likely that a significant amount of the lower part is missing. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpapyri der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 29 (1983): p. 68-70, no. I 541. |
Translations: | Dosoo, Korshi. “Horus, Sabaoth, Satanas: La « Bibliothèque de Berlin » et autres fonds d’archives magiques de l’Égypte romaine et les premières siècles de la période islamique”, in La magie et les sciences occultes dans le monde islamique edited by Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming). |
General: | Erman, Adolf. “Ein koptischer Zauberer.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 33 (1895): 43-46. |
Trismegistos ID: | 63027 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 121 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 63 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | 2.33 |
CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | ||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | 734 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 4219 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | EL (18/10/2018; 22/11/2019); MPS (27/6/2019); KD (8/5/2019); KD (1/6/2020); EL (17/8/2020); KD (11/3/2022) |