Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Anchorite’s Grotto texts 25-29 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Text 25: Incipits of the Four Gospels |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| 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. |
738 – 740 |
| Date notes: | Written between ca. 738 and 740, based on the date of the graffito written by the monk Theophilos in 739 CE (Griffith 1927: p. 88, no. 24) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A13 |
| Archive name: | Anchorite's Grotto |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Wall painting |
| Material: | Wall inscription (plaster) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, right part is lost (DBMNT 1651 (5/11/2018)) |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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9 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | Text 25 is written in four circles, each with 9 lines. Text 26 is written in 1 column of 24 lines. Text 27 is written in 2 columns, the most complete of which has 22 lines. Text 28 is written in 1 column, of which 26 lines survive in part. Text 29 consists of 1 column, of which 8 lines survive. |
| Hand: | Theophilos |
| Findspot: | Pachora (Faras), Sudan (TM places ID: 3170) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Pachora (Faras), Sudan (TM places ID: 3170) |
| Present Location: | [in situ] |
| Collection History: | Found and remains in situ. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
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| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | ★ Griffith, Francis L. “Oxford Excavations in Nubia–continued.” University of Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 14 (1927): 88-89, nos. 25-29, plates LXX-LXXI. |
| Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 221, no. 64b. |
| General: | http://www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl/ nos. 1649, 1651 |
| Trismegistos ID: | 370179 |
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 |
2.64b |
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 (5/11/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (11/9/2019); EL (17/8/2020); KD (9/2/2021); MPS (26/3/2021); JS (16/02/2022); MPS (30/3/2023); KD (8/8/2023) |