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KYPRIANOS M1223

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

Berlin P. 912

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 l. 1-9 -Vo l. 1-2: Citations of Psalm 46:2; 117:10; 88:16; 17:3; 96:11; 111:4

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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. 601 – 700
Date notes:

Delattre (2012: p. 389); TM (7/11/2019)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)

Material:

Ostracon (pottery)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 5 Width: 9.8 Depth: 1
Dimensions (notes):

Delattre (2012: p. 393)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, broken on the left-hand edge.

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, 9 lines recto, 2 lines verso. Recto is the convex side.

Hand:

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen

Collection History:

Purchased from the antiquities market in Thebes in 1859 (Delattre 2012: p. 394)

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:

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. 393-394, no. 7.

Schüssler, Karlheinz. Biblia Coptica 1.3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998, p. 27 [Sa 59].


Translations:
General:

Beltz, Walter. “Katalog der koptischen Handschriften der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Teil II).” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 27 (1980): p. 172, no. IV 1060.


Trismegistos ID:

108547

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 (7/11/2019); MPS (26/2/2020); EL (12/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1223," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1223. Accessed on 01/05/2025

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