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KYPRIANOS M122

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

PCM 1 9
PCM I 9
Berlin P. 5565
BKU 1 22
BKU I 22
P. Berol. 5565

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-13: Charm for for sleep containing containing historiola of Isis and Nephthys seeking Horus.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:

Perhaps Lycopolitan or Akhmimic influence ( ⲁ- for the Sahidic preposition ⲉ- and occasional ⲥⲁⲛ/ⲣⲉⲛ vocalism); cf. Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 99; Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 385) lists the text as Sahidic. See related texts for further notes.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 800
Date notes:

Dosoo/Preininger (2023: 99); TM (17/9/2018); Erman (1895: p. 50) considered the rough script undatable.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 18 Width: 31 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 99; Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 91); height given as 7 cm in Erman (1904: p. 21)
Folding pattern:

11 (?) vertical and 6 (?) horizontal creases (EL from autopsy 2016)
State of preservation:

Complete, light damage to edges and along some creases.
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 (↓), 13 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Acquired in 1887 in Thebes (Erman 1895: p. 15; 1904: p. 21).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: http://berlpap.smb.museum/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Dosoo, Korshi, and Markéta Preininger. Papyri Copticae Magicae. Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (PCM I 1), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte 48. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 99-101, no. 9.

Erman, Adolf. Aegyptische Urkunden aus dem Koeniglichen Museen zu Berlin: Koptische Urkunden. Vol. 1. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1904, p. 21, no. 22.

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. Les divinités gréco-égyptiennes dans les textes magiques coptes. Leuven: Peeters, 2025, p. 240-241.
Translations:

Erman, Adolf. “Heidnisches bei den Kopten”. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 33 (1895): 47–51.

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2, Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 12-14, no. 4.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 92-93, no. 47.

Pernigotti, Sergio. Testi della magia copta, Imola: Editrice La Mandragora, 2000, p. 56-57, no. 22.
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. Les divinités gréco-égyptiennes dans les textes magiques coptes. Leuven: Peeters, 2025.

Hevesi, Krisztina. “A Few Remarks on the Persistence of Native Egyptian historiolae in Coptic Magical Texts”. In Current Research in Egyptology 2018: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 25-28 June 2018, edited by Marie Peterková Hlouchová, Dana Belohoubková, Jirí Honzl and Vera Nováková. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019, p. 42-54.

Trismegistos ID:

98042

 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

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Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

73

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

2.4

 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)"

98042

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

MPS (17/9/2018); EL (17/10/2018); EL (17/6/2020); EL (21/8/2020); KD (30/11/2020); KD (19/12/2020); KD (8/1/2024)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M122," 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-m122. Accessed on 04/08/2026
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