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KYPRIANOS M224

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

Berlin P. 924
BKU 2 270

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

Magical (unclear ?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-4: Series of words: God, Jesus, Life, Light, Life.
2. Vo ll. 1-9: Invocation (?)
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes; cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 386)
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 800
Date notes:

TM (24/10/2018)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. No image.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)
Material:

Ostracon (limestone)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 13.5 Width: 10.5 Depth: 2.6
Dimensions (notes):

Beltz (1985: p. 36)
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. 4 lines recto, 9 lines verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 255)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Gift from Consul Travers in 1879 (Beltz 1985: p. 36)
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:

Aegyptische Urkunden aus den Koeniglichen Museen zu Berlin. Koptische Urkunden. Vol. 2. Berlin: Wiedmanische Buchhandlung, 1904, p. 202, no. 270.

Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpapiere und Zauberostraka der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 31 (1985): p. 36-37, no. IV 1029.
Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 39-40, no. 15.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

81827

 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 (24/10/2018); MPS (23/8/2019); KD (15/11/2019); EL (24/8/2020); MPS (25/3/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M224," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m224. Accessed on 15/07/2025

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