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KYPRIANOS M292

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

Köln Inv. 10235

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-38: Invocation for any purpose (?).
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 391.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 600
Date notes:

Weber 1972, p. 55; TM (7/1/2019)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 30 Width: 17 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Weber 1972, p. 55. Two large and several small fragments.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete, fragmentary, beginning and end of the text are missing.
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 (↓), 38 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

Cologne, Papyrussammlung
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 172
Collection website: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Van der Vliet, Jacques. “Cologne Coptic Magical Texts: Some Notes and Corrections.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 122 (1998): 120-121.

Weber, Manfred. “Ein koptischer Zaubertext aus der Kölner Papyrussammlung.” Enchoria 2 (1972): 55-61.
Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 210-211, no. 103.

Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: I testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, II.18.5. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, 3685–3730, p. 3709-3710, no. 13.
General:

van der Vliet, Jacques. “Cologne Coptic Magical Texts: Some Notes and Corrections.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 122 (1998): p. 120-121.

Trismegistos ID:

99604

 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

103
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

120

 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:

MPS (7/1/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (28/11/2019); MPS (3/9/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M292," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m292. Accessed on 24/10/2025

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