Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Mon. Epiph. 600 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Liturgical (hymns) |
Contents: | Ro. ll. 1-19: Hymn on Mary and the Nativity. |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 551 – 650 |
Date notes: | Late sixth or early seventh century CE (Mihálykó 2019: 343); sixth or seventh century according to TM; 580-640 CE according to collection website (12/09/2022) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A25 |
Archive name: | Monastery of Epiphanius |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/473397 |
Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 171 | Width: 272 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Collection Website (07/11/2022) |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto (concave), 19 lines. |
Hand: | Same hand as P. Mon. Epiph. 3, 7, 8, 15, 16, 19, 31, 32, 46, 47, 68, 400, 593, 598, 601, 603-607, perhaps that of a scribe named Moses (Winlock/Crum 1926: p. 155, 315). |
Findspot: | Western Thebes: Monastery of Epiphanius, Cell A (TM places ID: 1341) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Western Thebes: Monastery of Epiphanius, Cell A (TM places ID: 1341) |
Present Location: | New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Collection History: | Found during museum excavations in 1913-1914; acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1914 cf. collection Website (12/09/2022) |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 247 |
Collection website: | https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/473397 |
Notes/Discussion: | Was found with other manuscripts, including P.Mon. Epiph. 598, written in the same hand, on the sleeping mat in cell A (Winlock/Crum 1926: 316). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Winlock, Herbert E. and Walter E. Crum. The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes. Part II. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926 (repr. 1973), p. 132, 316, no. 600. |
Translations: | |
General: | Mihálykó, Ágnes T.The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 114. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 343, no. 227. |
Trismegistos ID: | 61459 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | ||||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | 782 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | Imported from checklist of Ágnes T. Mihálykó by KD (11/11/2019); JS (12/9/2022); JS (07/11/2022); KD (21/12/2022) |