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KYPRIANOS M1215

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

Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities A.AL 161 = I 451

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. 1-25 + vo ll. 1-15: Exodus 15.1-19.
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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 – 600
Date notes:

de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 206); 451-550 CE: Sijpesteijn (1963: 30).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://www.rmo.nl/imageproxy/jpg/196135

Form:

Ostracon
Material:

Ostracon (limestone)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 30.3 Width: 21.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Sijpesteijn (1963: p. 27); de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 207).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete, broken away at all sides; perhaps 2 lines missing at top of recto.
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. 25 lines recto, 15 lines verso.
Hand:

Each side is written by a different hand.

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities
Collection History:

Brought to the Museum in Leiden in 1828 with the collection of Jean d’Anastasy. (Sijpesteijn 1963: p. 27.)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 178
Collection website: https://www.rmo.nl/en/collection/search-collection/collection-piece/?object=7312

Notes/Discussion:

Bruyn/Dijkstra mistakenly give this the TM no. 62216, but this refers to a different object.
Sijpensteijn (1963: p. 29-30) states that the two sides were written by two different writers and that the second side had been added after the top of the first side had already broken way. This explains why only the first side is missing its first two lines whereas the second side does not. Furthermore, according to Sijpesteijn this was not an amulet, but rather for reading.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Sijpesteijn, Pieter J. “Die Hymne des Moses (Exodus XV 1-19) auf einem Ostrakon der Sammlung des Rijksmuseum van Oudheiden in Leiden.” Oudheidkundige mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 44 (1963): 27-33.
Translations:
General:

Boeser, Pieter A.A. Catalogus van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden / Egyptische Afdeeling. Leiden: Brill, 1907, no. E.XXXIV.17d.

Leemans, Conrad. Description raisonnée des monumens [sic] égyptiens du Musée d’antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leide. Leiden: H.W. Hazenberg & Co., 1840, p. 131, no. I 451.

Leemans, Caspar. Monumens [sic] égyptiens du Musée d’antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leide. Vol. 2. Leiden: Hazenberg & Co. II, no. 23, plates CCXXXVIII-CCXXXVIII. [non vidi]

Rahlfs, Alfred, et al. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 187-188, no. 2141.

Raven, Maarten J. Egyptische magie: Op Zoek Naar Het Toverboek Van Thot. Leiden: Walburg Pers, 2010, fig. 138.

Raven, Maarten. Egyptian Magic: The Quest for Thoth’s Book of Secrets. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, p. 171.

Trismegistos ID:

62116

 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:

KD (25/10/2019); ST (1/9/2021); ST (25/10/2021); KD (9/11/2021); KD (9/11/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M1215," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1215. Accessed on 03/11/2025

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