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KYPRIANOS M303

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Cairo JdE 45060

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Magical (formulary)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Greek protocol

Re-use:

2. Ro ll. 1-23: Invocation
3. Ro ll. 24-25: For the išt-disease (healing/protection)
4. Ro ll. 25-28: For an impediment (curse? protection?)
5. Ro ll. 28-29: For favour
6. Ro ll. 29-31: For deception (curse?)
7. Ro ll. 31-34: For eye disease (healing/protection)
8. Ro ll. 34-38: For strain (curse ?)
9. Ro ll. 38-40: For an oracle (divination)
10. Ro ll. 40-45: To make a ruler impoverished (curse)
11. Ro ll. 45-47: To suck out a cistern (curse)
12. Ro ll. 47-49: To make a pool (?) inhabited (gathering)
13. Ro ll. 50-51: To destroy a pool (?) (curse)
14. Ro ll. 52-61; To find something of value (treasure/property finding)
15. Ro ll. 62-64: To lead someone astray (curse)
16. Ro ll. 65-66: If someone fights with you (reconciliation)
17. Ro ll. 67-69: To make a woman become pregnant (healing)
18. Ro ll. 69-79: For a withered (?) man (healing?)
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic with Akhmimic features
Language/dialect notes:

Sahidic with Akhmimic features (EL); Sahidic (non-standard) Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 383).
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 551 – 600
Date notes:

Crum dates to late 6th CE (Kropp 1934: p. xi). TM (19/10/2018).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published, no image. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Rotulus
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 113 Width: 32.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Kropp 1934: p. 50.
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.

1
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto (↓), 83 lines. Fibre directions horizontal (→) at bottom of rotulus since this is the protocol.
Hand:

Cairo JdE 45060 hand

Findspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt

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

Memnoneia – Djeme, West Bank of Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Collection History:

Found in a jar buried in the floor of a monk’s cell in Draʻ Abu el-Naga’ near the monastery of Deir el-Bakhit by Howard Carter in the spring of 1914 (TM 19/10/2018; Kropp vol. 1 1934: xi, 50). The site was probably the entrance to Winlock XXVII, a row of Pharaonic tombs which were re-used by monks (Beckh 2012: p. 745-746).
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Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 1, Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 50-54, no. K.
Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2, Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 31-40, no. 13.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 270-273, no. 128.
General:

Beckh, Thomas. “Monks, Magicians, Archaeologists: New Results on Coptic Settlement Development in Dra’ Abu el-Naga North, Wester Thebes.” In Paola Buzi, Alberto Amplani, and Federico Contardi (editors), Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 17th-22nd, 2012 and Plenary Reports of the Ninth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 15th-19th, 2008. Leuven: Peeters, 2016, p. 739-747.

Trismegistos ID:

100016

 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

128
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

49

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

1.K, 2.13

 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 (19/10/2018); KD (5/4/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (28/10/2019); KD (2/12/2019); MPS (3/9/2020); KD (25/2/2020); KD (21/5/2021); KD (18/7/2021); JS (19/05/2022); KD (26/8/2024)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M303," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m303. Accessed on 21/11/2025

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