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TM 99576 / LDAB 99576 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/99576

Metadata

Date: AD 967 Oct 19
AM = in the year of the martyrs

Provenance: Middle Egypt ? - Egypt (UThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Coptic (Fayumic dialect) , drawing

Material: parchment

Completely preserved

Book form: sheet

Content (beta!): magical: sexual curse for impotence and to protect a woman from sexual advances of a man with drawing, voces et figurae magicae

Culture & genre: religion — magic, divination, invocation (religion: jewish, christian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: text in Arabic (ined.)

Reuse type: palimpsest new, effacing: see notes

Reuse note: palimpsest old: Coptic; only the Ro is a palimpsest

Note: folded in antiquity, probably to be placed into a small box, drawing

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, KyprianosKyprianos Magical Text Database => 1447 links in TM

Publications

Papyri Copticae magicae (PCM) 1 23 (2023) [default]

∙Pernigotti, Testi della magia copta 9 (2000)

∙Meyer / Smith, Ancient Christian magic. Coptic texts of ritual power 86 (Meyer, Marvin W. - 1994)

∙P. Baden 5 137 (Bilabel, Friedrich / Grohmann, Adolf - 1934)

Content studies: I. Gardner - J. Johnston, Journal of Coptic Studies 21 (2019), p. 29-61

Other bibliography: Richter, P. Jördens, 2023, p. 157-173

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→ Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie P. Kopt. 682

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