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KYPRIANOS M338

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

Berlin P. 22191 a.b
BKU 3 389
BKU III 389

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. 1-17-Vo ll. 1-6: Applied curse against Philoxen and Biktōr and Asane.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes. Cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2019: p. 386), who lists the text as Sahidic.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 301 – 800
Date notes:

300-799 in TM (1/10/2018).
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: 18.5 Width: 29.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Satzinger (1967: p. 119)
Folding pattern:

6 vertical, 5 horizontal creases.
State of preservation:

Complete. In 5 fragments. Bottom right and middle part missing (MPS autopsy).
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 (→). 17 lines recto, 6 lines verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
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:

Satzinger, Helmut. Koptische Urkunden III. Band, 2. Heft. Berlin: Verlag Bruno Hessling, 1967, p. 119-121, no. 389.
Translations:

Love, Edward O. D. 2022. Petitioning Osiris: The Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia in Context among the Letters to Gods from Egypt. Berlin, p. 184. [English translation]

Preininger, Markéta. “Tělesnost nerostů a země v pozdně antickém a raně islámském Egyptě,” [“The Corporeality of Minerals and the Earth in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt”]. Svět literatury/World of Literature XXXIV.68 (2023): 14–25 [Czech translation]
General:

Love, Edward O. D. 2022. Petitioning Osiris: The Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia in Context among the Letters to Gods from Egypt. Berlin, p. 182, n. 463; 394; 405.

Trismegistos ID:

243973

 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 (1/10/2018); KD (9/12/2019); EL (26/8/2020); MPS (10/3/2022); KD (23/3/2022); KD (30/3/2022); KD (16/9/2022); MPS (17/11/2023); MPS (6/5/2024); KD (5/2/2025)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M338," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m338. Accessed on 25/10/2025

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