Korshi Dosoo University of Würzburg korshi.dosoo@uni-wuerzburg.de
• 5-year project at the University of Würzburg (2018-2023) •  3 team members: Korshi Dosoo, Edward Love, Markéta Preininger Svobodová • IT : Matouš Preininger; research assistant: Stella Türker • Contributors: Krisztina Hevesi, Bill Manley, Agnes Mihálykó, David Tibet • http://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de
• Formal Characteristics •  Linguistic forms • Invocations of divine beings • “I invoke you…” • “I adjure you…” • “quickly, quickly” •   ‘Magical’ names ( onomata barbara, voces magicae) • Charactêres •   Images (figurae magicae) • Functional characteristics • Protection and/or healing • Curses • Love and favour spells • Divination
ANGUAGES OF MAGIC —Demotic   —Greek   —Coptic
•  Angelicus Kropp, Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. 3 vols. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Elisabeth, 1930-1931. •  The Coptic Magical Texts project (Claremont), directed by Marvin Meyer (1988-2002) . https://web.archive.org/web/20060908031215/http://iac.cgu.edu/resea rch/copticmagic.htm . Rossi's Gnostic Tractate (1988) •   Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power (1994) • Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (conference 1992, pub. 1995) • The Magical Book of Mary and the Angels (1996) • Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World (conference 1998, pub. 2002) •  TM Magic — Religious, Ritual, Magical and Divinatory texts, Franziska Naether & Mark Depauw •  Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin. "Catalogue des textes magiques coptes." Archiv für Papyrusforschung 63.2 (2017): 367–408. orpora for Kyprianc
1200 • Total no. of manuscripts: 1545
ARCHIVES
Collections of manuscripts found in a single site, written by a single scribe or otherwise connected by their production and/or use.
MANUSCRIPTS
Rolls, codices, rotuli, sheets, and other written objects containing one or more texts. TEXTS Recipes containing instructions for how to carry out rituals, or texts written in the course of such rituals.
IMAGES
Visual tableaux included within texts. These may be figural (animal or human figures), or contain  kharaktêres (magical signs) or text formations (letters manipulated to create particular shapes).
TOPONYMS
Sites in which manuscripts were written, found, or purchased.
HANDS
Identifiable scribal hands used to write texts. These hands can be described by their style (quadrilinear, bilinear; formal, informal etc.), and can sometimes be associated with a named individual.
• Filemaker version created September 2018 • Wordpress in development; scheduled for October 2020 • Custom MySql/PhP solution for end of project, September 2023 (?) Identifier M 8 Sigla LACMA MA 80.202.214 = 80.202.192 Ink Colour Form Category Egyptian (Coptic) TM Pl. 49 View Notes/Discussion The numbering by Dieleman (LACMA 80.202.214) does not correspond with the number in TM (MA 80.202.192) although they reference his article as the key source. The object is currently (6/12/2018) listed on the collection website as M.80.202.213 (incorrectly described as "Ostracon with Demotic Inscription"), but appears in the past to have been listed as M80.202.214 (see e.g. https: //commons.wikimedia. org/wiki/File: Ostracon_with_Coptic_Inscription_ and_Figural_Depictions_LACMA_ M.80.202.214.jpg). No. of related texts l Related Images >く>く> > EL Checked X MPS Checked X ST Checked Do not publish! Final Check  X Contentsく1. Ro ll. 1-14: Invocation for unclear purposes hand part missing. State of Preservation Pages/ Columns Pages/columns (Notes) Language(s) Date (Notes) Bib. (Edition) Biblio. Guide (Translation) Bib. (General) State of Published. Edition Long, Robert O. D. "Crum's Chiekers': Democratice Donkeys in the Oxatest of the Democratic and Credition of Coptic Magic", in Magibert Zoon: Autmal and Magic, edited by KortくKD Checked X MPS (26/10/2018); KD (7/12/2018); EL (29/3/2019); team (4/5/2020) Edit History Incomplete, fragment of a plate. Top and right- TM 26/10/2016. Dieleman (2006) does not date the ostracon. ⋆ Dieleman, Jacco. "A Coptic Magical Text from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Coptica 5 (2006): 20–31. Bib. < > Invocation for unclear View Ro ll. 1-14 View
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Korshi Dosoo University of Würzburg korshi.dosoo@uni-wuerzburg.de l was not yet seven years old when I entered the mysteries of Mithras… when I was still ten years old, I carried the torch for Demeter and submitted to the white sorrow of Kore, and I served the serpent of Pallas on the Acropolis as I was promoted to temple servant… After these things, when I was twenty years old, I came to Memphis among the Egyptians, and there I gained experience in the innermost sanctuaries… There I came to know how many rulers of the darkness there are and how they prosper in souls and have communion with their own bodies, and what kind of energy is erected through them…I saw there the souls of giants which were detained under darkness and in appearance raising up the earth as though one were carrying the heaviest of burdens on one's shoulders… I saw the Devil. Trust me, I even received him with joy and conversed with him… He promised to make me a ruler after the time of the things in my life and to assist me in this life. For this reason he entrusted a phalanx of demons to me, since I held honor with him…. Then, when I passed from the land of Chaldaea, I arrived in Antioch and was performing miracles like one of the ancients, and I gave proot of my sorcery and was a tamous philosopher-magician, since I possessed a great understanding of the invisible realms. The Confession of Cyprian of Antioch 1.1-9.1 So I reproved my wrath, …allayed my rage with great humility… I got to my feet, turned my face to the west, stretched my right hand out to heaven, cleansed myself of the dirt on my feet, drew my breath, and directed these formulae (apologia) at heaven, to the tabernacle of the Father within the seven veils… Gabriel, he with the great power of fire, who fills his fiery face with the fire that devours every other fire… [he will] go to NN., and reveal himself to her in a great revelation, relentless (?), irresistible, fascinating, filling her heart, her soul her spirit, and her mind ' with burning desire Yea, I adjure you, O Gabriel, go to NN, hang her by the hair of her head and by the lashes of her eyes. Bring her to him, NN... P.Heid.Inv.Kopt.684 ll. 47-130