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KYPRIANOS M1076

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

SB XXVIII 17249
SB 28 17249
Beuron, Erzabtei O. Kaufmann 270
Frankfurt, Private collection Kaufmann number unknown (previous)

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (applied) (?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-15: Names of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (15 names survive); applied amulet for protection (?)
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 700
Date notes:

Hagedorn & Worp (2004: p. 159). 501-800 CE (Jördens 2013: p. 316).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

Pottery
Dimensions (cm): Height: 17.5 Width: 7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Hagedorn & Worp (2004: p. 164).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

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

1
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto, 15 lines.
Hand:

Rapid, informal, cursive

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

Beuron, Erzabtei O. Kaufmann
Collection History:

Part of a group of ostraca formerly in the collection of Carl Maria Kaufmann, perhaps acquired prior to 1928, donated to the Monastery of Beuron before 1999 (Hagedorn and Worp 2004: p. 159).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 42
Collection website: https://relicta.org/cpp/detail.php?CPP=0408

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Hagedorn, Dieter, and Klaas A. Worp. “Ostraka der Sammlung Kaufmann in Beuron.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 146 (2004): 164, no. 6.

Jördens, Andrea. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 28 (SB XXVIII). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013, p. 316, no. 17249.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

68822

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

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

ST (17/4/2021); ST (24/4/2021); KD (28/5/2021)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M1076," 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-m1076. Accessed on 20/10/2026
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