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KYPRIANOS M1938

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

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UC32763a-b

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

Magical (unclear)

Contents:

1. Adjuration of powers.

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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 – 700
Date notes:

Montserrat (2000: p. 23)

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

Unpublished. To be published by Korshi Dosoo.

Image:

Form:

Skull

Material:

Bone (human, skull)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 11 Width: 13.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Fragment A: 11 (H) x 6.4 (W); B: 9.5 (H) x 7.2 (W). Approximate measurements made from photograph (KD 25/3/2020).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Text complete (?), skull in two fragments, some text lost.

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):

3 columns (?).

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

London, University College, Petrie Museum

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 201
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

The text is inscribed upon two fragments of the upper part of the calvarium of a human (?) skull (private communication from collection, 25/3/2020).

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Montserrat, Dominic. Ancient Egypt: Digging for Dreams: An Exhibition Held at the Croydon Clocktower, 8 October 2000 – 28 January 2001, and at the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, 16 March – 30 September 2001. Glasgow: Glasgow City Council, Cultural & Leisure Services 2000, p. 23.


Trismegistos ID:

874288

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:

KD (20/12/2019); MPS (25/2/2020); KD (25/3/2020); KD (25/3/2020); EL (20/4/2020); EL (11/8/2020); KD (26/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1938," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1938. Accessed on 01/05/2025

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