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Artefact ID932
TM IDTM 99595
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageCoptic
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

Magical spell in Coptic (A) to damage a certain woman called Maria (or by her) and another called Martha invoking several archangels and Jesus Christ.

Use of nomina sacra; three crosses at the end.

Layout and handwriting connect this text with P.Louvre E 11036A, P.Louvre E 11036B, and P.IFAO Copte 449, to the archive belongs also P.Lond.Copt. I 1223.

Selection criteriaChristian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian onomastics, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy, Nomina sacra, Coptic language
Date from301
Date to500
Dating criteria

Palaeography. Dated to 4/5th c. by Crum.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Aberdeen, Marischal Museum, number unknown

formerly in the collection of Grant Bey/Pasha (James Andrew Sandilands Grant)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• 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, Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études, Sciences historiques et philologiques 234, 537-544. Paris: Édouard Champion, 539-540 & pl. VII.

Additional bibliography

• Kropp, Angelicus M. 1931. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Vol. 2: Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Brüssel: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 227-228 #LXVII.

• Lee, G. M. 1968. "Demotica et Coptica." Aegyptus 48: 140 [139-140].

• Pernigotti, Sergio. 1995. "La magia copta." In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.18.5, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, 3685-3730. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 3725 #31.

• Ritner, Robert K. in Meyer, Marvin, and Richard Smith. 1999. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton/NJ: Princeton University Press, 206-207 #100 and notes on 374.

• Rémondon, Roger. 1952. "Un papyrus magique copte." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 52: 157-161 & planche.

• Roquet, Gérard. 1994. "Deux papyri akhmimiques du Musée du Louvre et leurs parallèles, le pAberdeen et le pIFAO."  Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 138: 387-389. 

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 932", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/932
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