Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Nahman Amulet |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-41: Applied amulet for protection from supernatural influences for Philoxenos son of Euphemia. Includes incipits of Psalm LXX 90, the Gospel of John, Matthew, Luke, and Mark. |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | None given by Drescher (1950). |
| Folding pattern: | 6 horizontal creases (?) Folded horizontally 3 or 4 times (Drescher 1950: p. 265). |
| State of preservation: | Complete. Piece missing at the top-left. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 41 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 2740) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Unknown |
| Collection History: | Private collection of M. Robert Nahman, antiquities dealer in Cairo (Drescher 1950: p. 265). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
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| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Drescher, James. “A Coptic Amulet.” In Coptic Studies in Honor of Walter Ewing Crum (Bulletin of the Byzantine Institute 2). The Byzantine Institute, Inv. Washington 1950, p. 265-270. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 115-116, no. 62. |
| General: | Chapa, Juan. “Su demoni e angeli: il Salmo 90 nel suo contesto.” In I papiri letterari cristiani: atti del convegno internazionale di studi in memoria di Mario Naldini, Firenze, 10-11 Giugno 2010, edited by Guido Bastianini and Angelo Casanova. Florence: Instituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli,” 2011, p. 85, no. 12. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 98054 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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62 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
91 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| 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: | EL (25/3/2019); MPS (20/9/2019); KD (7/10/2019); KD (23/1/2020); MPS (28/8/2020); MPS (22/12/2020); KD (4/10/2023) |