Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Khartum, Sudan National Museum number unknown |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied ?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-6: Short prayer for help containing names of the Three Hebrew Youths (applied amulet for healing/protection?) |
Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16.6 | Width: 19 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | From DBMNT (26/2/2021). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Three fragments. |
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. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Soba, Sudan (TM places ID: 3466) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Soba, Sudan (?) (TM places ID: 3466) |
Present Location: | Khartum, Sudan National Museum |
Collection History: | Found in excavation. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 965 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Jakobielski, Stefan. “The Inscriptions, Ostraca and Graffiti.” In: Soba, Archaeological Research at a Medieval Capital on the Blue Nile, Memoirs of the BIEA, edited by D. A. Welsby and C. M. Daniels. London: 1991, p. 278, no. 1. |
Translations: | |
General: | Database of Medieval Nubian Texts (DBMNT) no. 1893 (http://www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl/) |
Trismegistos ID: | 370423 |
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” | 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: | KD (20/3/2019); KD (27/6/2019); ST (23/1/2021) |