Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Burial vault, Tomb of Archbishop Georgios |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ceiling, above west wall l. 1: Invocation of Trinity. |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | Sahidic |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 1110 – 1120 |
Date notes: | ca. 1113 CE |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A38 |
Archive name: | Tomb of Georgios |
State of edition: | Published |
Image: |
Form: | Wall inscription |
Material: | Wall inscription |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Chamber 140 cm high, 80 cm wide, 210 cm long; entrance on western wall. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete, some damage. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | |
Pages/Columns (notes): | |
Hand: | Ioannes (scribe) |
Findspot: | Toungoul (Dongola (Old)), Nubia (TM places ID: 5080) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Toungoul (Dongola (Old)), Nubia (TM places ID: 5080) |
Present Location: | [in situ] |
Collection History: | Still in its original position in the Tomb of Georgios in the Monastery of Dongola. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Łajtar, Adam and Jacques van der Vliet. Empowering the Dead: The Texts from a Medieval Funerary Complex in Dongola. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 32. Warsaw: Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation, 2017, p. 61-239 nos. 1–17. |
Translations: | |
General: | Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Sethians and Their Texts in Christian Egypt in the 4th and 5th Centuries.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 86 (2020): 110-112. |
Trismegistos ID: | 371260 |
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 | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (31/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (21/1/2020); MPS (14/2/2020); KD (8/9/2020); KD (29/9/2021); JS (11/10/2022) |