The Coptic Magical Papyri
- Date of account
- Late antique, roughly 4th–7th centuries
- Location
- Egypt
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Coptic magical papyri preserve prayers, invocations, healing formulas, protective rites, curse material, and ritual instructions from late antique Egypt. They are central for studying how Christian language interacted with inherited Egyptian, Jewish, and Greco-Roman ritual repertoires. The texts can be compared with colonial American cases involving healing and accusation, while avoiding the assumption that written formulas represent everyday practice in full. Dating, provenance, scribal transmission, and the relationship between manuscript text and archaeological context remain uneven across individual pieces.
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