Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | BM EA 10808 + P. EES Oxyrhynchus 105/124 Recto |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro col. x+1 ll. 1-11: Ritual to cause an angel who is upon the barque of the Sun-god to come to the practitioner so that he completes the NN deed (comparable to those for acquiring a πάρεδρος). |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Classical) |
Script(s): | Coptic (Old) |
Dialect: | Middle Egyptian |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 151 – 225 |
Date notes: | 151-225 CE (Love 2022) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published (column x+2). |
Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=876309001&objectid=118184 |
Form: | Roll |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 29.2 | Width: 16.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary. Column x+2 complete except for slight damage. Column x+1 preserved only from a fragment in of the upper third of the column, and traces in the right margin of column x+2 |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | Two surviving columns recto. Column x+1, c. 20 surviving lines. Column x+2, 52 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
Present Location: | London, British Museum |
Collection History: | Excavated in Oxyrhynchus during Grenfell and Hunt’s third season (1904). Taken from Parcel 21.3B/29F of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri to British Museum in 1968. Adjoining fragment is housed in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri in the Papyrology Rooms of the Sacker Library, Oxford (Love fc.) |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 193 |
Collection website: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10808 |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Crum, Walter Ewing. “An Egyptian text in Greek characters”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 28, 1942, p. 20-31. |
Translations: | |
General: | Aufrère, Sydney, H.. “La dernière ronde des hieroglyphs… La mort des écritures égyptiennes traditionnelles et l’émergence des premiers signes coptes”, in: N. Bosson and S. H. Aufrère (eds.), Égyptes … l’égyptien et le copte: catalogue de l’exposition, 1999, pp. 27-68., there 56. |
Trismegistos ID: | 108583 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | 14 | 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: | EL (30/10/2018); EL (7/1/2019); EL (14/1/2019); EL (18/8/2020); KD (14/9/2021) |