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KYPRIANOS M2109

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

P. Gascou 84
Kellis obj.reg. # P93.24

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.1-21: Applied amulet against fever.

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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. 301 – 400
Date notes:

Worp (2016)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A65
Archive name: Kellis Area A House 4 Archive
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 7.2 Width: 1.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Worp 2016: p.435)

Folding pattern:

Folded.

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.

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto (↓), 21 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Area A, House 4, Kellis, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2762)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Area A, House 4, Kellis, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2762)
Present Location:

Egypt, Kellis, excavations Dakleh Oasis Project

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

Notes/Discussion:

Although this text contains the generic name marker, it seems likely that it is an applied text due to folding.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Worp, Klaas A., ‘Miscellaneous new Greek papyri from Kellis (P.Gascou 67–88)’. In Mélanges Jean Gascou: textes et études papyrologiques (P.Gascou), edited by Jean-Luc Fournet and Arietta Papaconstantinou, Paris: Collège de France, 2016, p. 475-479, no. 84.


Translations:

Hope, Colin A., and Gillian E. Bowen. Kellis: A Roman-Period Village in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, p. 455, document 20.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

702584

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 (9/4/2020); KD (25/10/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M2109," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m2109. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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