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KYPRIANOS M1789

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

P. Mon. Epiph. 599
Cairo, Coptic Museum JdE 44674.58
LDAB 6415

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

Liturgical (hymns)

Contents:

Ro. ll. 1-13: Hymn on the conception of John the Baptist and the Nativity.

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Language(s):

Greek

Script(s):

Greek

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 701 – 899
Date notes:

Mihálykó 2019: p. 343; 501-699 cf. TM (12/9/2022)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A25
Archive name: Monastery of Epiphanius
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)

Material:

Ostracon (pottery)

Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

No published dimensions.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary; 13 lines preserved, broken at bottom.

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 surviving lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Monastery of Epiphanius, Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Monastery of Epiphanius, Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

Cairo, Coptic Museum

Collection History:

Found during the excavations of 1913-1914.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 72
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Reproduces the same text as P. Mon. Epiph. 598 ll.10-15 (KYP M1788).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Winlock, Herbert E. and Walter E. Crum. The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes. Part II. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926 (reprinted 1973), p. 132, 316, no. 599 (text and translation).


Translations:
General:

Mihálykó, Ágnes T.The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 114. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 343, no. 226.


Trismegistos ID:

65173

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

781

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

Imported from checklist of Ágnes T. Mihálykó by KD (11/11/2019); JS (12/9/2022); KD (21/12/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1789," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1789. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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