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KYPRIANOS M2136

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O. Saint-Marc 398

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Biblical (apocryphal)
Contents:

1. Ro ll.1-6: Letter of Jesus to Abgar
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

No nonstandard Sahidic features present in surviving text (KD 8/9/2020).
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 750
Date notes:

Site used from seventh to first half of eighth century CE (Bour’hors and Heurtel 2015: vol. 1, p. 7-8).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

Ostracon (pottery)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 10 Width: 5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, 6 pieces put together. Only one has significant surviving text. Broken at top, left and right. Only traces on verso (concave).
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 (convex) and verso (concave). 4 surviving lines recto (+ 2 reconstructed lines), 1 surviving verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Monastery of Saint Mark, Memnoneia-Djeme (Thebes West), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Monastery of Saint Mark, Memnoneia-Djeme (Thebes West), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

SCA storehouse (Carter house), Luxor, Egypt, Box 21 (no. 346)
Collection History:

Found during the excavation of the topos of Saint Mark by IFAO team led by Georges Castel between 1971 and 1973 (Bour’hors and Heurtel 2015: vol. 1, p. 1)
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Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Boud’hors, Anne, and Chantal Heurtel. Ostraca et papyrus coptes du Topos de Saint-Marc à Thèbes (Cairo: IFAO, 2015) (O. Saint-Marc), p. 237-238, no. 398, vol. 2 p. 477, figs. 476-477.
Translations:
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 191-193.

Trismegistos ID:

700755

 PAThs: 3484
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:

KD (23/6/2020); KD (10/4/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M2136," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m2136. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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