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KYPRIANOS M1094

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

O. Eleph. 165
Egypt, Elephantine, excavations DAIK no. O. 7 + 8 + 10

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Documentary
Contents:

Original use (?):

1. Ro ll. 1-7: Psalm LXX 91.14-16; applied amulet for healing/protection (?)

Re-use (?):

2. Vo ll. 1-4: Documentary text
See all texts in this manuscript.

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 – 600
Date notes:

Wagner (1998: p. 68); de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 206).
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: 7.5 Width: 8.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Wagner (1998: p. 68); de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 207).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, 3 fragments.
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. 7 lines recto, 4 lines verso.
Hand:

Irregular, unskillful

Findspot:

Elephantine (Geziret Assuan), Egypt

(TM places ID: 621)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Elephantine (Geziret Assuan), Egypt

(TM places ID: 621)
Present Location:

Assuan, Elephantine Museum
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 857
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Nachtergael, Georges. “À propos d’un papyrus documentaire et d’un ostracon biblique d’Élephantine.” Chronique d’Égypte 73 (1998): 119-120, no. 2.

Wagner, Guy. Les Papyrus et les Ostraca Grecs d’Elephantine (O. Eleph.) (DAIK XIII). Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1998. p. 68, no. 165.

Winter, Franz. “Zum Psalmenzitat auf O. Eleph. 165.” Tyche 13 (1998): 249-252.
Translations:
General:

Martín Hernández, Raquel, and Torallas Tovar, Sofìa. “The Use of the Ostracon in Magical Practice in Late Antique Egypt.” 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. 13-14, no. 2116.

Trismegistos ID:

62101
92375

 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 (24/5/2021); ST (2/6/2021); KD (14/7/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1094," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1094. Accessed on 19/05/2024

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