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KYPRIANOS M1087

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

MH Ost 1269
O. Medin. Habu 1269
Chicago, Haskell Oriental Institute MH 1269

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. 1-12: Psalm LXX 20,1-50; 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. 501 – 700
Date notes:

Wilkren (1946: p. 181).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon
Material:

Pottery
Dimensions (cm): Height: 5.7 Width: 9.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Wikgren (1946: p. 181).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete. Top and bottom missing.
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 (convex), 12 lines.
Hand:

Irregular, undisciplined

Findspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

Chicago, Haskell Oriental Institute
Collection History:

Recovered at Medinet Habu by an expedition of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 1931-1932 (Wilkgren 1946: p. 181).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 98
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Wikgren, Allen. “Two Ostraca Fragments of the Septuagint Psalter.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 5 (1946): 181-182.
Translations:
General:

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. 175.

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): 206, no. 145.

Martin, Alain. “Souvenirs papyrologiques d’une excursion à Chicago.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 47 (2010): 221-223.

Martín Hernández, Raquel, and Sofia Torallas Tovar. “The Use of the Ostracon in Magical Practice in Late antique Egypt. Magical handbooks vs. Material Evidence.” In: Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 80 (2014): 791.

Rahlfs, Alfred, et al. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 56-57, no. 2071.

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptual Incipts on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt. Text, Typology and Theory, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2014, pp. 122-123, no. 46.

Treu, Kurt. “Christliche Papyri (1940-1967),” APF 19 (1969): 176.

van Haelst, J. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1976, p. 64, no. 122.

Wevers, J. W. “Septuaginta-Forschungen.” ThR 22 (1954): 135-136.

Trismegistos ID:

61973

 		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

122

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

145

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

ST (8/5/2021); KD (16/6/2021); SG (7/8/2025)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M1087," 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-m1087. Accessed on 20/10/2026
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