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Artefact ID933
TM IDTM 99596
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageCoptic
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

Magical spell in Akhmimic Coptic meant to damage a certain man called Jacob and invoking several archangels, 5400 martyrs, the Virgin, Jesus, and Zechariah, father of John the Baptist.

Written along the fibres; three crosses at the middle top of the sheet and at the end of l. 12; staurogram in the left margin of l. 2; use of nomina sacra.

Layout and handwriting connect this text with P.Louvre E 11036A, P.Louvre E 11036B, and P.Aberdeen (Roquet 1994). To the same archive belongs also P.Lond.Copt. I 1223. Since the papyrus was found later in the same drawer, a connection between this piece and P.IFAO copte 451 is also assumed.

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. in ed.pr.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Possible provenance from Panopolis (inventorial clue acc. to ed.pr.)

Accession number

Cairo, IFAO Copte 449

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Rémondon, Roger. 1952. "Un papyrus magique copte." Bulletin de lʼInstitut français dʼarchéologie orientale 52: 157-161 & planche.

Additional bibliography

• Louis, Catherine. 2013. "Une prière magique copte en dialecte achmimîque." In Études coptes XII: Quatorzième journée d’études (Rome, 11-13 juin 2009), edited by Anne Boud'hors and Catherine Louis, Cahiers de la Bibliothèque copte 18, 25–36. Paris: De Boccard.

• 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, 3726 #32.

• Pernigotti, Sergio. 2000. Testi della magia copta, Piccola biblioteca di egittologia 5. Imola: La Mandragora, #41.

• Ritner, Robert K. in Meyer, Marvin, and Richard Smith. 1999. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton/NJ: Princeton University Press, 207-208 #101.

• 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, Victor Ghica, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, Victor Ghica, 2021, "Artefact ID 933", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/933
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