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KYPRIANOS M1098

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

P. Ant. 2 54
P. Ant. II 54
Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Ant. 54

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

Magical (applied) (?)
School exercise (?)
Biblical (New Testament, gospel)
Contents:

1. p. 1 ll. 1-6 + p. 2 ll. 1-6 + p. 3 ll. 1-4: Gospel of Matthew 6.10-12 (Lord’s Prayer); perhaps applied amulet for healing/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. 275 – 325
Date notes:

Clarysse & Pasquale (2012: p. 472).
201-300 CE: Barns & Zilliacus (1960: p. 6); Cribiore (1996: p. 273); de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 208).
201-400 CE: Calhoun (2020: p. 421).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Codex
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 4 Width: 2.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Barns & Zilliacus (1960: p. 6); Bammel (1961: p. 280); Cribiore (1996: p. 273).
Folding pattern:

Folded in antiquity.
State of preservation:

Sheet from a codex. 1 double leave left from originally 2 double pages (Cribiore 1996: p. 273).
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

4
Pages/Columns (notes):

4 pages, 3 written, last page blank. 16 lines total.
Hand:

Evolving, sloping

Findspot:

Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2274)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2274)
Present Location:

Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms
Collection History:

Found during excavations of John de Monins Johnson in Antinoopolis for the Egypt Exploration Society in 1913-1914.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 264
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bammel, Ernst. “A New Text of The Lord’s Prayer.” The Expository Times 73 (1991): 54.

Bammel, Ernst. “Ein neuer Vater-Unser-Text.” Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 52 (1961): 280-281.

Barns, John W. B., and Henrik Zilliacus. The Antinoopolis Papyri. Vol. 2. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1960, p. 6-7, no. 54.

Comfort, Philip W., and David P. Barret. The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts. Michigan: Baker Publishing Group, 1999, p. 629.

Cribiore, Raffaella. Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996, p. 273, no. 387.

Jaroš, Karl. Das Neue Testament nach den ältesten griechischen Handschriften. Die handschriftliche griechische Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments vor Codex Sinaiticus und Codex Vaticanus. Ruhpolding-Mainz: Franz Philipp Rutzen, 2006, p. 3822-3824, no. 2.13.

Jones, Brice C. New Testament Texts on Greek amulets from Late Antiquity. London: T&T Clark, 2016, p. 117-122, no. 12.
Translations:
General:

Aland, Kurt (ed.). Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri: 1. Biblische Papyri: Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1976, no. 29.

Calhoun, Robert M. “The Lord’s Prayer in Christian Amulets.” Early Christianity 11 (2020): 421, no. 1.

Carlig, Nathan, and Magali de Haro Sanchez. “Amulettes ou exercices scolaires: Sur les difficultés de la catégorisation des papyrus chrétiens.” Écrire la Magie dans l’Antiquité: Actes du Colloque International. Liège, 13-15 Octobre 2011, edited by Magali de Haro Sanchez. Liège: Presses Univ. de Liège, 2015, p. 80-81.

Clarysse, Willy, and Pasquale Orsini. “Early New Testament Manuscripts and Their Dates. A Critique of Theological Palaeography.” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 88 (2012): 472.

Kraus, Thomas J. “Manuscripts with the Lord’s Prayer – They are More than Simply Witnesses to that Text Itself.” In: New Testament Manuscripts. Their Texts and their World, edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006, p. 233.

Legras, Bernard. Lire en Égypte, d’Alexandre à l’Islam. Paris: Picard, 2002, p. 93.

Trismegistos ID:

64206

 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

347

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

156

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

KD (25/10/2019); ST (6/6/2021); ST (9/6/2021); ST (16/6/2021); KD (15/7/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M1098," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1098. Accessed on 25/11/2025

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