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KYPRIANOS M193

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

Berlin P. 3289

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

Magical (applied ?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-3: Cipher (?)
2. Ro ll. 4-6: Prayer to bless and protect a house
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Akhmimic or Fayumic (?)
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 800
Date notes:

TM (17/10/2018); Placeholder date as hand has not yet been dated.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. No image. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 7.3 Width: 7.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Maximum dimensions (EL 22/11/2019) | 7.5 x 7 (Beltz 1983: p. 60)
Folding pattern:

Not discernible (EL from autopsy 22/11/2019)
State of preservation:

Complete. Appears to have been cut from a larger sheet (traces of a register line above line 1 as well as the descending stroke of a letter). Beltz (1983: p. 60) states erroneously that the text is so faded that a reading is hardly possibly (EL from autopsy 22/11/2019)
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, 6 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Acquired on the antiquities market between 1877 and 1881 (Beltz 1983: p. 60)
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:

Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpapyri der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 29 (1983): p. 60, no. I 533.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

108879

 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 (17/10/2018; 22/11/2019); MPS (4/3/2019); KD (11/11/2019); EL (21/8/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M193," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m193. Accessed on 10/12/2025

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