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Coptic Museum 4959 |
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Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-11: Text with angel illustration |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic (?) |
Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes. |
Date: ![]() |
801 – 900 |
Date notes: | 9th to 11th according to TM (21/3/2019), but date after 10th century unlikely with papyrus as the support. |
Archive/collection: ![]() |
KYP A11 |
Archive name: | Coptic Museum Archive (?) |
State of edition: | Unpublished; partial translation in ACM. |
Image: |
Form: | Rotulus |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 60 | Width: 16 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Meyer & Smith (1991: p. 239) |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary. Six large and several small fragments. |
Pages/Columns: ![]() |
2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto and verso. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Cairo, Coptic Museum |
Collection History: | Acquired along with other magical texts in 1948 (Meyer and Smith 1991: p. 11). |
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Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
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Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 239-243, no. 119. |
General: | Vycichl, Werner. “Magic”. In The Coptic Encyclopedia, vol. 5, edited by Aziz Atiya. New York: Macmillan, 1991, p. 1499-1509. |
Trismegistos ID: | 100008 |
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Edit History: | KD (24/10/2018); EL (21/3/2019); MPS (15/4/2019); MPS (8/9/2020) |