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KYPRIANOS M176

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

PCM 1 1
PCM I 1
P. Kell. Copt. 35
P. Kellis V 35
Excavation no. P88 + P77B + P79 + P92.49

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

Magical (formulary)
Documentary (letter)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-22: Separation spell (curse).
2. Ro, Vo col. 2 ll. 23-50: Private letter from Oualēs to Psais.
3. Vo col. 1 ll. 1-2: Address.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Greek
Dialect:

Lycopolitan (L*)
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.; Gardner et al (1999: p. 84-95) and Shisha-Halevy (2002) for comments.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 351 – 390
Date notes:

Based on date range suggested for Psais, the addressee (KD); TM (21/3/2019)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A6
Archive name: Kellis Area A House 3 Archive
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 23.7 Width: 7.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Gardner et al 1999: p. 224.
Folding pattern:

5 (?) horizontal creases, 3 (?) vertical creases.
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.

3
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto (→), 2 columns verso (↓). Recto 42 lines, verso column 1 (address) 2 lines, verso column 2 (continuation of letter) 8 lines.
Hand:

Ouales

Findspot:

Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2762)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2762)
Present Location:

Egypt, Kellis, excavations Dakleh Oasis Project
Collection History:

Excavated at Kellis. Presumably held in magazine nearby.
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Collection website:

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. 47-53, no. 1.

Gardner, Iain, Anthony Alcock, and Wolf-Peter Funk. Coptic Documentary Texts from Kellis: Vol.1 (P.Kell. V). Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1999, p. 224-228.

Mirecki, Paul, Iain Gardner, and Anthony Alcock. “Magical Spell, Manichaean Letter.” In Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources, edited by Paul Mirecki and Jason Beduhn. Leiden: Brill, 1997, p. 1-32.
Translations:

Hope, Colin A., and Gillian E. Bowen. Kellis: A Roman-Period Village in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, p. 423-424, document 23.

van der Vliet, Jacques. “Christian Spells and Manuals from Egypt.” In Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic, edited by David Frankfurter. Leiden : Brill, 2019, p. 332-334.
General:

Love, E. O. D. Code-switching with the Gods. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache Beihefte: Band 4. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2016, p. 273-276, §7.6.1.

Love, Edward O.D. “Bilingualism and Mono-/Bigraphia at the Nexus of Magical Traditions: From Egyptian-Greek to Coptic-Arabic Magical Texts”, in Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt, edited by Lajos Berkes. Ann Arbor: American Society of Papyrologists, 2022, p. 180-181.

Mirecki, Paul. “Manichaeism, Scribal Magic, and Papyrus Kellis 35”, in Gnostica et Manichaica: Festschrift für Alois van Tongerloo Anlaßlich Des 60. Geburtstages überreicht von Kollegen, Freunden und Schülern, edited by Luigi Cirillo and Michael Knuppel. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013, p. 133-146.

Shisha-Halevy, Ariel. “An Emerging New Dialect of Coptic.” Orientalia 71.3 (2002): 305.

van der Vliet, Jacques. “Tradition and Innovation: Writing Magic in Christian Egypt,” in Rituals in Early Christianity: New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation, edited by Nienke M. Vos and Albert C. Geljon. Leiden: Brill, 2020, p. 263-265.

Trismegistos ID:

85886

 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”

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 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 (27/9/2019); KD (11/11/2019); KD (23/4/2020); KD (8/9/2020); KD (13/10/2020); KD (21/3/2022); KD (10/4/2022); KD (20/11/2023)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M176," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m176. Accessed on 02/01/2026

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