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KYPRIANOS M1221

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

Berlin P. 4959
P. Berol. 4959

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

Magical (applied ?) (?)
School exercise (?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-3: Citation of Psalm 109:1
2. Vo. ll. 1-4: Unclear text (not Psalm, not continuation of recto)
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

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. 701 – 800
Date notes:

Delattre (2012: p. 389); TM (5/11/2019)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/record/?result=0&Alle=4959

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)
Material:

Ostracon (limestone)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 4 Width: 6 Depth: 2
Dimensions (notes):

Delattre (2012: p. 391)
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, broken along all edges.
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):

2 columns, one each recto and verso, 3 lines recto, 4 lines verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Writingspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Purchased from the antiquities market in Thebes in 1889 (Delattre 2012: p. 390).
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:

Hasitzka, Monika (ed.). Neue Texte und Dokumentation zum Koptisch-Unterricht. (MPER 18) Wien: Verlag Brüder Hollinek, 1990, p. 40-41, no. 34.

Delattre, Alain. “Ostraca des Musées de Berlin portant des extraits des Psaumes en copte.” In Forschung in der Papyrussammlung, Eine Festgabe für das Neue Museum, edited by Verena M. Lepper. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2012, p. 391, no. 4.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

108721

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

EL (5/11/2019); MPS (26/2/2020); EL (12/8/2020)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M1221," 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-m1221. Accessed on 19/10/2026
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