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KYPRIANOS M2101

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

BM EA 33140
O. Brit. Mus. Copt. I p. 34, pl. 27

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. 1-5: Amulet for favour for Horobin
2. Vo ll. 1-4: Amulet for favour for Kōš and Mēnas

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

From PAThs (1/4/2020).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A46
Archive name: Monastery of Apa Phoibammon
State of edition:

Published. No published image. New edition desirable.

Image:

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)

Material:

Ostracon (limestone)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 8.5 Width: 12.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

5 x 3.5 inches (Hall 1905: p. 34).

Folding pattern:
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.

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each, recto and verso. Recto 5 lines, verso 4 lines.

Hand:

Large uncial

Findspot:

Monastery of Apa Phoibammon, Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Monastery of Apa Phoibammon, Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

London, British Museum

Collection History:

Excavated by Henri Édouard Naville (1893-1894) on behalf on Egypt Exploration Fund (PAThs 1/5/2020).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 193
Collection website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Hall, H. R. Coptic and Greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraka, Stelae, etc. in the British Museum. London, 1905 (O. Brit. Mus. Copt.), p. 34 no. 1, pl. 27.

Hasitzka, Monika (ed.). Neue Texte und Dokumentation zum Koptisch-Unterricht. (MPER 18). Wien: Verlag Brüder Hollinek, 1990, p. 126, no. 193.


Translations:
General:

Godlewski, Włodzimierz. Deir el-Bahari V, Le monastere de St. Phoibammon (Warsaw: Éditions Scientifiques de Pologne, 1986), p. 159.


Trismegistos ID:

82597

PAThs: 3518
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 (1/4/2020); EL (20/4/2020); team (18/5/2020) (3/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M2101," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m2101. Accessed on 02/05/2024

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