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KYPRIANOS M1122

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

O. Eleph. Wagner 322
O. Eleph. DAIK 322
Egypt, Elephantine, excavations DAIK no. O. 637

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. 1-9: Names of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste
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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. 301 – 500
Date notes:

Wagner (1998: p. 87).
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: 11 Width: 6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Wagner (1998: p. 87). Original size of ostracon was probably ca. 25 x 15 cm, with the size being wider if it was written in two columns of 10 lines, or one column of 20 lines.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete, broken at top, bottom, and right; left margin seems to be survive in part.
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 ?), 9 surviving lines.
Hand:

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:

Egypt, Elephantine, excavations DAIK
Collection History:

Excavated by the German Archaeological Institute (DAIK) on the island of Elephantine.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Delattre, Alain. “Noms rares et noms fantômes dans trois ostraca grecs d’Élephantine.” Chronique d‘Égypte 85 (2010): 363-366.

Wagner, Guy. Les Papyrus et les Ostraca Grecs d’Elephantine. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1998, p. 87, no. 322.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

34326

 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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Edit History:

KD (25/10/2019); ST (19/7/2021); KD (22/7/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M1122," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1122. Accessed on 21/12/2025

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