Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Mich. Inv. 602 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-9: Prayer of Judas Cyriacus |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | Dialectal features suggest the influence of a southern Egyptian dialect resembling Akhmimic (KD 23/7/2026). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 700 |
| Date notes: | Michigan APIS (26/9/2018). c. 600 (Online Catalogue) |
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Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
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KYP A10 |
| Archive name: | Coptic Wizard’s Hoard |
| State of edition: | Published through Kyprianos. |
| Image: | http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-4638/602r_neg.tif |
| Form: | Rotulus |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 71 | Width: 28.9 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Measurements from photograph. |
| Folding pattern: | At least 2 horizontal creases. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some damage at top. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto (↓), 47 lines. |
| Hand: | Hand 4. |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
| Collection History: | Brought from Egypt to the British Museum in February 1921 by Wallis Budge and soon after acquired by the University of Michigan. (Worrell 1930: p. 239). Numbers 593-603 were part of a single find, and 594-603 seem to have been rolled together (Acquisition reports online 26/1/2021). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
12 |
| Collection website: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis?type=boolean&view=reslist&rgn1=apis_inv&select1=regex&from=index&q1=602 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Contains text B (Worrell’s classification), a copy of which appears in P. Mich. 598 + 597 + 595 + 1294. Information on content from R. Bélanger Sarrazin (15/30/2020). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. Les divinités gréco-égyptiennes dans les textes magiques coptes. Leuven: Peeters, 2025, pp. 162-166. |
| Trismegistos ID: |
874177 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | MPS (26/9/2018); EL (21/11/2018); KD (4/9/2019); team (3/7/2020); MPS (26/1/2021); MPS (12/1/2022); RBS (2/11/2025); MPS (17/6/2026); KD (23/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M18," 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-m18. Accessed on 08/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.