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KYPRIANOS M351

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

BM EA 32931
O. Crum 487
C. Pharm. Copt. 10

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

Magical (formulary ?)
Medical (recipes)

Contents:

1. Ro ll.1-3: Fragmentary prescription (healing).
2. Ro ll.4-6: Prescription for eye condition (healing).
3. Ro ll.7-8: Prescription for a dog bite (healing).
4. Ro ll. 9: Fragmentary prescription (healing).
5. Vo col.1 ll.1-9: Fragmentary prescription (healing).
6. Vo col.2 ll.1-3: Fragmentary prescription (healing ?).

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

TM (3/9/2020)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

Grons 2025: p. 217; TM (24/7/2018); Collection website (24/09/2018): 7th-8th century.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A46
Archive name: Monastery of Apa Phoibammon
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=263204001&objectId=169300&partId=1

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)

Material:

Ostracon (limestone)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 7.3 Width: 8.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (24/9/18)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete, broken at all sides.

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 recto, 9 lines; 2 columns verso, col. 1 (left) 9 lines, col. 2 (right) 3 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Monastery of Apa Phoibammon, Thebes, Egypt

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

Thebes, Egypt
Monastery of Apa Phoibammon (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

London, British Museum

Collection History:

Donated by Egypt Exploration Fund. Excavated by Henri Édouard Naville at the monastery of Apa Phoibammon in 1900 (Collection website 3/9/2020).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 193
Collection website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA32931

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Grons, Anne. Medizinische Rezepttexte in koptischer Sprache (C.Pharm.Copt.). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beiheft 56. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, p. 217-222, no. 10, plates 9a-b.

Crum, Walter E. Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Cairo Museum and others. London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902, n° 487, see part II: Texts, p. 82, no. 79.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

83376

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”

293

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 (24/9/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (10/12/2019); MPS (3/9/2020); KD (16/5/2023); RBS (24/7/2026)


How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M351," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m351. Accessed on 25/10/2026
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