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Artefact ID934
TM IDTM 99583
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageCoptic
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

P.Lond.Copt. I 1223

Charm by an unnamed woman against another woman (possibly future daughter-in-law) in Coptic (A) beseeching the help of God Allmighty, archangels, 24 elders, and four animals to bring down ailment, suffering, and sickness on the latter.

Recto: the text runs across the fibres, in an uneven and clumsy hand; staurogram in the left margin of l. 1.; Verso: series of three crosses and three staurograms.

The text is seen in association with the archive of texts P.Louvre E 11036A, P.Louvre E 11036B, P.Aberdeen, and P.IFAO copte 449; possibly linked is also P.IFAO copte 451, though slightly different.

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

Palaeography

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

London, British Library Ms Or 6172

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Crum, Walter Ewing. 1905. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 505-506 #1223.

Additional bibliography

• Lexa, František. 1925. La magie dans l’Égypte antique de l’ancien empire jusqu’à l’époque copte. Les textes magiques. Vol. 2. Paris: Librairie orientaliste P. Geuthner, 169-170 #XV. 

• Kropp, Angelicus M. 1931. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Vol. 2: Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Brüssel: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 241-242 #LXXIII.

• Smith, Richard in: Meyer, Marvin, and Richard Smith. 1999. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton/NJ: Princeton University Press, 196-197 #93.

Authors
Matthias Müller, Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 934", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/934
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