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KYPRIANOS M133

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

Coptic Museum O. 5517

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

Magical (unclear)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-9 (?): Words, symbols, and characters.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

TM (21/3/2019)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Unpublished.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

Ostracon (pottery)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 14.4 Width: 24.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete (?).
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 of ca. 9 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1271)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1271)
Present Location:

Cairo, Coptic Museum
Collection History:

Excavated by Assiut Mission (Information from Hadeer Bilal, Coptic Museum).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 72
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène (ed.). L’art copte en Egypte. 2000 ans de christianisme: exposition présentée à l’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, du 15 mai au 3 septembre 2000 et au Musée de l’Éphèbe au Cap d’Agde du 30 septembre 2000 au 7 janvier 2001. Paris: Gallimard, 2000, p. 121, no. 95.

Trismegistos ID:

108488

 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 (21/3/2019); MPS (9/7/2019); KD (12/9/2019); MPS (8/9/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M133," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m133. Accessed on 07/12/2025

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