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Artefact ID927
TM IDTM 99580
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

P.HermitageCopt. 70

Magical text with a curse in Coptic (A) adressing the Lord and the archangels to strike Prestasia, Tnounte and Eboneh swiftly with references to biblical precendences; attributed to the archive of Akhmimic magical texts (P.Louvre E 11036A, P.Louvre E 11036B, P.Aberdeen, P.IFAO Copt. 449, and P.Lond.Copt. I 1223)

Selection criteriaMention of Christian individuals/communities, Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Nomina sacra, Coptic language
Date from301
Date to500
Dating criteria

Palaeography

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum 13471 (ex. private collection Lichatchev)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Turaev, Boris Alexandrovich (Тура́ев, Бори́с Алекса́ндрович) 1908. "Ахмимский папирус из коллекции Н. П. Лихачева." Записки Восточного отделения Русского археологического общества 18: 28–32.

Reference edition

• Ernstedt, Petr Victorovic (Ернштедт, Петр Викторович). 1959. Коптские тексты государственного Эрмитажа. Москва & Ленинград, 151–57.

Additional bibliography

• Crum, Walter Ewing. 1922. "La magie copte. Nouveaux textes." In Recueil d'études égyptologiques: dédiées à la mémoire de Jean-François Champollion à l'occasion du centenaire de la lettre à M. Dacier relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques, lue à l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres le 27 septembre 1822, edited by Anonymous, 537–44. Paris: Édouard Champion, 237 with n. 1.

• Kropp, Angelicus M. 1931. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Vol. 2: Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Brüssel: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 232-234 #70.

• Meyer, Marvin in: Meyer, Marvin and Richard Smith. 1999. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton/NJ: Princeton University Press, 190-191 #90 with notes on p. 372.

• von Lemm, Oskar. 1972. Koptische Miscellen I–CXLVIII. Unveränderter Nachdruck der 1907–1915 im „Bulletin de l’Académie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg“ erschienenen Stücke, hrsg. von Peter Nagel, Subsidia Byzantina XI. Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 92–102 ("Zu einigen von Turajev edierten Texten 2–5: 2. Papyrus aus der Sammlung Lichačev") [but see Crum's note 1].

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 927", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/927
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