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KYPRIANOS M1031

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

SB I 3573
SB 1 3573
Berlin, Staatliche Museen ÄM 2148

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Magical (applied ?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-4 + Vo ll. 1-4: Applied amulet containing words “Bous” (and variants), “highest”, and “hallelujah”, perhaps citation of Psalm LXX 90.1.
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Coptic (?)
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:

Seems to contain one Coptic letter (djandja).
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

TM (21/2/2021); 601-900 CE: de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 190).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Tablet
Material:

Wood
Dimensions (cm): Height: 4.1 Width: 2.3 Depth: .4
Dimensions (notes):

Kraus (2008: p. 483).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each, recto and verso. 4 lines recto, 4 verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Missing since 1958 (probably lost during the Second World War).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/00997/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Le Blant, Edmond-Frédéric. “Tablai égyptiennes a inscriptions grecques (Suite et fin).” Revue archéologique (2e série) 29 (1875): 306, no. 86.

Nachtergael, Georges. “Une amulette chrétienne du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon.” Ricerche di egittologia e di antichità copte 4 (2002) 96, no. 7.

Preisigke, Friedrich. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 1. (SB I). Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, 1915, p. 243, no. 3573.
Translations:
General:

Bilabel, F., ed. Veröffentlichungen aus den badischen Papyrus-Sammlungen. Vol. 4, Griechische Papyri. Heidelberg: Verlag der Universitlitsbibliothek, 1924, pp. 47-48.

Brashear, William M. “Lesefrüchte.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 50 (1983): 102.

Cauderher, Patrice. Tablettes grecques d’Égypte: Inventaire.” In Les tablettes à écrire de l’antiquité à l’époque moderne, edited by Élisabeth Lalou. Bibliologia 12. Turnhout, Brepols, 1992, p. 88, no. 254.

de Bruyn, Theodore. “Papyri, Parchment, Ostraca, Tablets Written with Biblical Texts in Greek and Used as Amulets: A Preliminary List.” In Early Christian Manuscripts: Examples of Applied Method and Approach, edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. Leiden: Brill, 2011, p. 169.

de Bruyn, Theodore and Jitse H. F. Dijkstra. “Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Elements: A Checklist of Papyri, Parchments, Ostraka, and Tablets.” BASP 48 (2011): 190, no. 52.

Kraus, Thomas J. “Bους, Bαινχωωχ und Septuaginta-Psalm 90? Überlegungen zu den sogenannten ‘Bous’-Amuletten und dem beliebtesten Bibeltext für apotropäische Zwecke.” Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 11 (2008): 483, no. 10.

Königliche Museen zu Berlin. Ausführliches Verzeichnis der ägyptischen Altertilmer und Gipsabgilsse, 2 Aufl. Berlin: W. Spemann, 1899, p. 394, no. 2148

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, p. 119-120, no. 43.

van Haelst, J. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1976, p. 82, no. 192.

Trismegistos ID:

62282

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires

192

 Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

52

 TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

ST (21/1/2021); KD (8/3/2021); SG (7/8/2025)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M1031," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1031. Accessed on 20/10/2026
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