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So geht Latinum & Graecum! Unterwegs

Das gesellschaftliche Leben, wo man es als Bio bezeichnet, wie z. man mit diesen Problemen konfon- B. Bio-Glühwein oder Bio-Speck? triert wird, funktioniert auch etwas Vielleicht werde ich aber mit der anders. Zeit alles verstehen... Als Student geht man zum Bei- spiel in Ungarn sehr selten aus, um Die vierte internationale zusammen zu essen. Man geht zum Sommerschule in kopti- Trinken! Wenn wir um 19 Uhr ver- scher Papyrologie in Hei- abredet sind, bedeutet es, dass die delberg Ersten frühestens um viertel nach von Lincoln H. Blumell (Brigham sieben ankommen. Da ich daran ge- Young University) wöhnt war, habe ich in Deutschland in der ersten Zeit natürlich alle Tref- om 26. August bis 9. Sep- fen verpasst, weil auÿer mir alle im- tember 2012 war die Univer- mer pünktlich da waren. V sität Heidelberg Gastgeber Diese Kleinigkeiten lernt man der vierten internationalen Som- aber schnell. merschule für koptische Papyro- Es gibt jedoch immer noch logie. Phänomene, die mir nicht klar Mehr als zwanzig Studenten und sind  warum kann man wäh- Wissenschaftler aus der ganzen rend der Fuÿballmeisterschaft nichts Welt kamen für etwas mehr als anderes mit Freunden Unterneh- zwei Wochen in Heidelberg zusam- men, als Fuÿball zu schauen? men, um an einer Weiterbildung Warum essen al- zur le Spargel im kopti- Mai? Warum schen schauen Sonn- Pa- tags abends pyro- alle Tatort? logie Warum blei- teil- ben alle stehen, zu- wenn die Ampel neh- rot ist, obwohl men es keinen Ver- und kehr gibt? Und an warum kann den man alles teuer Institut für Papyrologie, Participants working kopti- verkaufen, wenn on their Texts schen

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Papyri in der Heidelberger Samm- drea Jördens (Universität Heidel- lung zu arbeiten. Die Sommerschule berg) and Georg Schmelz (Uni- wurde von Prof. Dr. Andrea Jör- versität Heidelberg). To sup- dens (Institut für Papyrologie der plement the instruction a num- Universität Heidelberg), Prof. Dr. ber of visiting scholars also par- Joachim Quack (Ägyptologisches ticipated: Anne Boud'hors (Insti- Institut der Universität Heidelberg), tut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Prof. Dr. Tonio Sebastian Richter Textes, Paris); Alain Delattre (Uni- (Universität Leipzig) und Dr. Ge- versité Libre de Bruxelles), Gesa org Schmelz (Universität Heidel- Schenke (University of Oxford), berg) organisiert. Das Programm Eitan Grossman (Hebrew Univer- wurde groÿzügigerweise aus Mitteln sity), and James Cowey (Universität des Deutschen akademischen Aus- Heidelberg). Two current doctoral tauschdienstes unterstützt. In den students at Heidelberg, Lajos Berkes kommenden Jahren soll von den and Kirsten Dzwiza, also gave lec- Organisatoren der Sommerschule tures. Funds for the program were ein Band herausgegeben werden, generously provided by the Deutsche der die Editionen der während des Akademische Austauschdienst. Kurses bearbeiteten Papyri enthält. The Summer School began the This past summer the Univer- evening of August 26 with a recep- sity of Heidelberg hosted the Inter- tion at the Institut für Papyrologie national Summer School in Coptic where participants were greeted by Papyrology (Aug. 26  Sept. the organizers, given a warm wel- 9, 2012). The program was the come to Heidelberg, and assigned a fourth such Summer School in Coptic piece in the collection which Coptic Papyrology with the pre- they would be responsible for editing vious Summer Schools being held by the close of the Summer School. in Vienna (2006), Leipzig (2008), After the reception Georg and Strasbourg (2010). For just Schmelz then took the participants over two weeks an international on a guided tour through the his- cohort of participants converged toric Altstadt. In total there were on Heidelberg to receive training twenty-one participants who came in Coptic papyrology from some from countries that included Aus- of the foremost specialists in the tralia, Belgium, Egypt, France, Ger- world. The program was organ- many, Hungary, Russia, Spain, and ized by Sebastian Richter (Uni- the United States of America. The versität Leipzig), Joachim Friedrich participants included undergradu- Quack (Universität Heidelberg), An- ates, graduates, one junior faculty

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as well as a post graduate who Over the course of the next two had a passion for Coptology but weeks participants were instructed who now works in another eld. in a variety of dierent areas that Though the participants brought ranged from Coptic paleography, dierent skill sets and competen- philology, orthography and codico- cies, all worked together and were logy, to Coptic Magical texts, Chris- united by their common interest in tian texts, to legal documents and Coptic papyrology. While very few medicinal texts. Morning and early participants knew each other prior afternoon lectures were given on the to the Summer School the group third oor of the Ägyptologisches dynamics were such that friendships Institut followed by work on the pa- were quickly forged and everyone pyri at the Institut für Papyrologie. seemed eager to lend a helping hand Lectures began each day at 9:15 to their neighbor. am and most students did not n- The formal lectures for the Sum- ish work until 7:30 or 8:00 pm in the mer School began Monday August evening. Though the days were long 27 with Andrea Jördens, Head of and taxing the participants' enthu- the Institute for Papyrology (Uni- siasm and desire to edit their texts versität Heidelberg), welcoming the helped to push them along. participants and introducing them Notwithstanding the demanding to the large papyrus collection at schedule of the Summer School Heidelberg, which consists of some there were a few interruptions as 10,600 pieces and is second in size day trips were taken to Speyer in Germany only to the Berlin col- and Ladenburg, which were gener- lection. ously guided by Dr. Gereon Becht- Georg Schmelz then introduced Jördens, as well as trips to Man- the participants to the Coptic papyri nheim and Dilsberg. One highlight in the Heidelberg collection, which was that the participants enjoyed number about 1,378 Coptic papyri watching the light show and re- and parchments and 31 Coptic os- works atop the Ägyptologisches In- traca, and went on to relate how stitut for the Schlossbeleuchtung. most of the Coptic materials in the To conclude the Summer School, collection were acquired in 1905 by a day trip to Heidelberg castle Friedrich Bilabel. The morning lec- was organized and guided by tures were then completed with Se- Dr. Claudia Maderna-Sieben (Uni- bastian Richter's general introduc- versität Heidelberg). There was also tion to the eld of Coptic Papyro- a public lecture given by Joachim logy. Friedrich Quack on the origin of the

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Coptic script followed by a reception Letters at the Alte Universität. Letters occupied the single largest In total just over thirty dier- group of documents edited during ent Coptic documents were assigned the Summer School as almost half and edited by the participants in the of the texts edited by participants Summer School under four general were either a private or ocial let- categories: Literary Texts; Letters; ter. Magical Texts; and Legal and Ad- Sally Adel, a graduate student at ministrative Texts. Cairo University, worked on a private Literary Texts letter that contained fteen extant Of all the genres of texts assigned lines of text and was from the eighth the smallest in number were literary or ninth century. in nature with only a few fragments Antonia St. Demiana, also from being edited. Egypt and a Coptic nun at St De- Ivan Miroshnikov, a doctoral stu- miana's Monastery who is starting dent at the University of Helsinki, a doctorate degree via long dis- edited a fragment from a parchment tance learning at Macquarie Univer- codex from the tenth century that sity, edited a seventh-century let- contained the ending of the Martyr- ter from a person identied as the dom of Paese and Thecla (an ac- "`son of Zacchaeus"' to an indi- count of the life and death of the vidual named "`Philip"' that con- two saints, Apa Pa?se and his sis- cerned the release and subsequent ter Thecla, who were martyred dur- return of a woman. ing Diocletian's persecution), and a Richard Burcheld, another doc- colophon. toral student at Macquarie Univer- Marc Malevez from Belgium ed- sity, worked on a personal letter that ited a large fragment from a parch- contained a request to a monk. ment codex that contained a text Frederic Krueger, who recently re- of some Christian treatise from the located to Leipzig to work with Dr. ninth or tenth century. Richter on a project on Greek loan Lastly, Korshi Dosoo, a doctoral words in Coptic, edited an emotional student at Macquarie University in seventh-century letter from a nun to Australia, edited two fragments that her superior in which she urgently contained Coptic liturgical poems entreated him to inform her about from the sixth to eighth centuries the health of another nun who was where certain biblical stories from very sick. both the Old and New Testaments Guillaume Lescuyer, a doctoral were incorporated. student at Liege, edited two let-

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ters: a letter from eighth-century dividual to the recipient. Ashmunein (?) that deals primarily with a complaint that a shipment of Graham Claytor, a doctoral can- wine was not sent and a second let- didate at the University of Michigan, ter from the tenth century that is worked on the remains of an ex- largely fragmentary aside from the tremely large ecclesiastical letter initial greeting. from either the eighth or ninth cen- Lincoln Blumell, an Assistant tury that measured 34.0 by 32.0 cm Professor in the Department of An- (physically it was the largest text cient Scripture at Brigham Young edited during the Summer School) University, edited a bilingual letter and was addressed to an individual (Coptic and Greek) from either the named Apa Ioul(- ). late seventh century or eighth cen- tury that concerned provincial ad- Loreleï Vanderheyden, a doc- ministration and the complaint of a toral student at the École Pratique group of sailors. des Hautes Études in Paris, edited a letter likely written by a monk in which he deals with problems concerning a lease of land.

Finally Vincent Walter, a doctoral Ägyptologisches Institut, Last Day of Summer School. student at Nadine Quenouille, who works at Leipzig who is working with PD the University Library of Leipzig and Dr. Richter, edited a Coptic letter who also teaches some Greek Papyr- written on paper from the tenth or ology at Leipzig, edited an eighth- eleventh century that among other century letter where the sender was things contained an order for the concerned about the health of a cer- butchering of a sheep and some tain woman and was sending an in- chickens.

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Magical Texts Legal and Administrative Texts The nal category of documents In addition to literary texts and let- consisted of texts from a diverse ar- ters a small group of magical texts ray of genres that t under the gen- in the Heidelberg collection were ed- eral umbrella of "`Legal and Admin- ited that included amulets, spells, istrative Texts."' While these texts and various apotropaic texts. were fairly mundane and quotidian in terms of their content, at least Ágnes Mihálykó, an undergradu- compared to the magical documents ate from Hungary, edited an amu- with their many supernatural fea- let against fever from the eleventh tures, this group of texts were very century written on paper that in- important since they greatly help to cluded an invocation to the three reconstruct the economic, political, young men of Babylon from the Old and even social history of the peri- Testament Book of Daniel. ods from which they come. Adrienne Deák, another under- Lajos Berkes, a doctoral student graduate from Hungary, edited an at Heidelberg, edited a long receipt amulet from the tenth or eleventh from the mid-seventh century for century that invoked the "`virgin bricks and lime that included costs Mary"', "`Jesus"', and "`Peter the and referred to various ocials; per- Apostle"' and acted as a charm haps the signicance of the letter is against various dangers. that concerns the building of Fust.ât. (modern Cairo). Susanne Beck, a doctoral student Ana Isabel Blasco Torres, a doc- at Munich, edited an esoteric ma- toral student at Leuven, edited two gical text from the eleventh century bilingual orders (Coptic and Greek) that contained incantations against from the eighth century from the dierent demons causing dierent Monastery of Apa Apollo in Bawit kinds of destructions and alluded for payments of wine and wheat. to material from the Testament of Hadeer Belal, a graduate student Solomon and other Old Testament from the University of Cairo, ed- Apocrypha. ited an eighth-century contract from Christoer Theis, a doctoral stu- Hermopolis. dent at Heidelberg, worked on a very Esther Garel, a doctoral student fragmentary Coptic calendar that at the École Pratique des Hautes listed the lucky and unlucky days for Études in Paris, worked on a list of the 12th, 13th, and 21st  23rd days wheat supplies and a fragmentary of a month. lease from 8th-century Ashmunein.

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Finally, Richard Burcheld, Vin- cent Walter, Frederic Krueger, and Nadine Quenouille, all of whom Neue Grabungen in Kou- had edited a letter, also edited an masa agreement, receipt, a guarantee- von Nadine Becker declaration, and an order for pay- ment respectively. as minoische Koumasa, ge- It is anticipated that a forthcom- D legen an den Ausläufern ing volume will appear in the com- des Asterousia-Gebirges ing years that will include completed mit Sicht über die fruchtbare editions of all the documents and Mesara-Ebene, ist vor allem für will be edited by the organizers of seine frühbronzezeitlichen Grab- the Summer School. Upon com- bauten bekannt. pletion of the Summer School stu- Drei groÿe Tholoi wurden, zusam- dents were provided with certicates men mit dem rechteckigen Grab- and enjoyed a farewell dinner and re- bau Gamma, im ersten Jahrzehnt ception at Gilbert's Goldener Anker des 20. Jahrhunderts von Stephanos in Heidelberg. Plans for a future Xanthoudides ausgegraben und die Coptic Summer School are already Ergebnisse in einer, für die dama- underway and though the hosting lige Zeit, vorbildhaften Publikation venue has not been determined it is vorgelegt. Sowohl die Grabung als anticipated that it will take place in auch deren Funde sind ein Meilen- the summer of 2014. stein im Fachbereich der minoischen Archäologie, da die Tholoi zu den am reichsten ausgestatteten minoi- ou;a9/1m p;oe9c! schen Grabbauten der frühen Bron- Farewellp inp the Lord! zezeit zählen. Mit ihren imposanten Maÿen von über 10 m Durchmesser und meh- reren Metern Höhe waren sie nicht nur imposante Begräbnisstätten der minoischen Eliten des ausgehenden 4. und 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr., son- dern bildeten zusätzlich weit sicht- bare Landmarker, die die Region stark prägten und als Symbol für Eingang Tholos A und Blick in einen ausgeprägten Jenseitsglauben Richtung des modernen Koumasa. und einen stark ritualisierten Toten-

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