Karev, Ella. “Slave Sale from Hermopolis (P.Vindob. G 13290 r°; Sixth/Seventh Century)”, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 60 (2023): 115-123. Karev, Ella. “Reply of Christ To Abgar in Sahidic Coptic (P. Vindob. 13290 recto)”, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 61 (2024): 211-219.Magical (applied) Documentary (sale document)No acquisition information.https://onb.digital/result/131B512Bhttps://onb.digital/result/131B512BBlackOriginal use: 1. Ro ll. 1-8: Document concerning the sale of a slave. (Greek) Re-use: 2. Vo ll. 1-16: Letter of Jesus to Abgar. (Coptic) (Applied amulet for healing and protection?)Date is of magical re-use; original documentary use dates to the sixth or seventh century (Karev 2023: 115).501700Karev 2023: 117. Dimensions are for the magical re-use; height and width…
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KYP M3945
Martín Hernández, Raquel and Sofía Torallas Tovar. “Magical Texts from Barcelona (Montserrat Abbey and Palau Ribes Collections)”, Symbolae Osloenses 96:1 (2022): 249-255 no. 3.Martín-Hernández, Raquel, and Sofía Torallas-Tovar. “A Magical Spell on an Ostracon at The Abbey of Montserrat.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 189 (2014): 175-184.Martín-Hernández, Raquel, and Sofía Torallas-Tovar. “A Magical Spell on an Ostracon at The Abbey of Montserrat.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 189 (2014): 175-184.Magical (?) Literary (?) School exercise (?)Acquired by Dr. Ramón Roca-Puig in Egypt in the 1950s. Bequeathed to the Abbey of Monserrat by him in 2001 (Martín-Hernández, Torallas-Tovar 2014: p. 175).Black1. Ro col. 1 ll. 1-12, col. 2 ll. 1-7: List…
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KYP M3943
Bell, H.I. “Report on Papyri: 1925 Consignment” (1925) p. 21 (no. 277), online at https://apps.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/papyrology/acq-reports/Report%20on%20Papyri%2C%20etc.%2C%20of%201925%20consignment.pdfBell, H.I. “Report on Papyri: 1925 Consignment” (1925) p. 21 (no. 277), online at https://apps.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/papyrology/acq-reports/Report%20on%20Papyri%2C%20etc.%2C%20of%201925%20consignment.pdfMagical (applied ?)The papyrus was purchased from Maurice Nahman in 1925 and came to University in October 1926 as a gift of Oscar Weber and Richard H. Webber (of Detroit) (Collection website 5/9/2023).https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-9873/3527.tifhttps://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-9873/3527.tif1. Sheets 1-3, recto: Uncertain text; applied amulet for healing/protection (?).Since text is not visible, the date is very uncertain.1900MPS (5/9/2023); KD (16/10/2023)EgyptAll three papyrus sheets are well folded.sheet394319Greek (?) Egyptian (Coptic) (?)Language is unknown, since sheets have never been unfolded.PapyrusThree strips of papyrus folded into packets and attached to…
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KYP M3928
Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “More on the Tradition of Amulet Pattern-Books in Post-Ancient Copies?” Kernos 33 (2020): 187–201.Hickey, Todd and Katelijn Vandorpe. “A New Fragment from P.Batav. 5 (Pathyris, May 118 BC).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 202 (2017): 214–218. MacCoull, Leslie S. B. “Coptic Documentary Papyri from Aphrodito in the Chester Beatty Library.” The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985): 197–203.Hickey, Todd and Katelijn Vandorpe. “A New Fragment from P.Batav. 5 (Pathyris, May 118 BC).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 202 (2017): 214–218. MacCoull, Leslie S. B. “Coptic Documentary Papyri from Aphrodito in the Chester Beatty Library.” The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985): 197–203.Magical…
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KYP M3921
Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (P. Lond. Copt.). London: British Museum, 1905, p. 252-253, no. 523.Griffith, F. Ll. “ⲡⲉⲧⲃⲉ=Νεμεσις”, Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology 22 (1900): 162-163. Cuyler, Mary Jane. “Artefact ID 59”, 4CARE database – Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, 2020 https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/59 Till, Walter. “Bemerkungen zu koptischen Textausgaben 7-8,” Orientalia 12 (1943): p. 334.Griffith, F. Ll. “ⲡⲉⲧⲃⲉ=Νεμεσις”, Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology 22 (1900): 162-163. Cuyler, Mary Jane. “Artefact ID 59”, 4CARE database – Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, 2020 https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/59 Till, Walter. “Bemerkungen zu koptischen Textausgaben 7-8,” Orientalia 12 (1943): p. 334.Magical (formulary)Acquired by Grenfell…
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KYP M3912
Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 47A.Müller-Kessler C. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002): p. 129, 047A. Simpson, St. John. “From Tekrit to the Jaghjagh: Sasanian sites, settlement patterns and material culture in northern Mesopotamia”, in Continuity and Change in Northern Mesopotamia from the Hellenistic to the Early Islamic Period. Dietrich Reimer, edited by K. Bartl & S.R. Hauser. Berlin: Reimer-Verlag, 1996, p. 90.Müller-Kessler C. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002): p. 129, 047A. Simpson, St. John. “From Tekrit to the Jaghjagh: Sasanian sites, settlement patterns and material…
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KYP M3895
Magical (applied)Described by collection website as “old inventory” (15/9/2022).https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.39653https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/papyri/view/p_kopt_585/Brown1. Ro ll. 1-15: Magical text of unclear contents mentioning Jesus an the archangels Michael and Raphael; perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection.Dating by K. Hevesi.501800From collection website (15/9/2022).KD (15/9/2022); KD (9/10/2025)Egypt7 horizontal, 4 vertical creases.Sheet389519Egyptian (Coptic)Parchment114 (?) surviving lines recto.Heidelberg, Institut für PapyrologieNo information on provenance.CopticP. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 585Unpublished; edition in progress by K. Hevesi.Complete but considerable damage along creases, especially in the middle of the sheet.156494910Egypt
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KYP M3893
Magical (formulary)No acquisition information.https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/Cpt_2067/1/LOG_0000/https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/Cpt_2067/1/LOG_0000/Black1. Ro ll. 1-16: Curse (?) 2. Ro ll. 17-22: Amuletic prayer for protection (?) 3. Ro ll. 23-38: Unclear magical text 4. Vo ll. 1-22: Love spell. 5. Vo ll. 23-27: Spell for childbirth (?) 6. Vo ll. 28-30: “For a mad dog” (amulet for protection?) 7. Vo ll. 31-32: Magical text for unclear purposes 8. Vo ll. 33-42: Curse (?)Preliminary estimate based on typical dates of Coptic magical rotuli on papyrus (25/1/2025).501900Sahidic with Middle Egyptian featuresCollection website (24/1/2025)KD (14/9/2022); KD (24/1/2025)EgyptRotulus389319Egyptian (Coptic) GreekPapyrus21 column each recto and verso; 38 lines recto (↓), 42 surviving lines verso (→).Dublin, Chester Beatty LibraryNo acquisition information.Coptic GreekChester Beatty Library…
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KYP M3892
Lamont, Jessica L. “Crafting Curses in Classical Athens: A New Cache of Hexametric Katadesmoi”, Classical Antiquity 40.1 (2021), p. 76–117, no. 2.Chaniotis, Angelos. “Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion 2010 (EBGR 2010).” Kernos 26 (2013): p. 288. Chaniotis, Angelos, Nikos E. Kaltsas, Iannis Mylonopoulos, J. Mylonopoulos, and Alexander S. Onassis (eds.). A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC–200 AD. New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2017, no. 10. Feyel, Christophe. “Bulletin Épigraphique in Revue des Études Grecques”, in in Révue d’études grecques (2010), p. 707-708, no. 223. Lamont, Jessica L. “A New Commercial Curse Tablet from Classical Athens,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2015) 196: 159–74. Petritaki, Maria. Archaiologion deltion. Vol.…
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KYP M3891
Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 65A.Simpson, St. John. Chapitre. From Tekrit to the Jaghjagh: Sasanian sites, settlement patterns and material culture in northern Mesopotamia. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1996, p.93.Simpson, St. John. Chapitre. From Tekrit to the Jaghjagh: Sasanian sites, settlement patterns and material culture in northern Mesopotamia. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1996, p.93.Magical (applied) Incantation BowlExcavated by Austen Henry Layard (collection website 27/07/2022).https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/737900001https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_N-1560Black1. Inside ll. 1-20: For protecting a man named Adurgušlin (אדרגושלין) and possibly his wife, Aḥidat (אחידת) from demons.Collection website (27/07/2022).50180013.5Jewish AramaicCollection website (27/07/2022)Information from the “Prosopography of magic bowls” by Ortal-Paz Saar digitised…