{"id":47173,"date":"2022-12-22T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de\/?p=47173"},"modified":"2022-12-22T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:59:10","slug":"2022-review-the-fourth-year-of-the-coptic-magical-papyri-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de\/index.php\/2022\/12\/22\/2022-review-the-fourth-year-of-the-coptic-magical-papyri-project\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Review: The Fourth Year of the Coptic Magical Papyri Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael accompanied by his two Powers from P. Heid. Kopt. Inv. 686 (KYP M166<\/a>), intended to be copied onto an amulet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Four years of the Coptic Magical Papyri project have passed, and just a little bit less than one remains. We\u2019ve managed to achieve a lot, but we still have much more to do, and we hope to have some pleasant surprises for our followers in the next few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team once again underwent some changes this year – we said goodbye to Matou\u0161 Preininger, who since 2020 has been providing us with invaluable IT support. But we were able to welcome back Stella T\u00fcrker, who has returned to continue helping us by compiling data on manuscripts in the database, and had a new member join the team – Selina Schuster – who is helping us format text editions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kyprianos Database<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While our updates have been less frequent this year with our IT support gone, the Kyprianos database has continued to grow. This year we have added a further 152 manuscript entries, and translations of a further 73 texts, accompanied by 10 tracings of magical drawings, and made the raw data of Kyprianos <\/em>available for download – for more information on these, see our last update<\/a>. For this Christmas, we decided to focus on editing manuscript information on Christmas hymns preserved on papyrus, and thanks to the hard work of our doctoral researcher, Julia Schwarzer, you can now find basic descriptions of (nearly) all of them in Kyprianos<\/a>. You can also read about them in a blog post from our friend and colleague \u00c1gnes Mih\u00e1lyk\u00f3<\/a>, who provided us with the basic information on the corpus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conferences and Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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The cover of the volume Magikon Z\u014don: Animal and Magic from Antiquity to the Middle Ages<\/em>, featuring as its cover image Gleipnir <\/em>by Walton Ford<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This year was our biggest yet for communication, with team members presenting 25 talks at in-person or online conferences and seminars, and a total of 14 articles, reviews, monographs, and text editions submitted. It was also a very big year for publications, so we thought it might be worth briefly summarising some of them here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n