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KYPRIANOS M376

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

I. Jeremias 168

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

Magical (applied)
Liturgical (prayer)

Contents:

1. Ro l. 1-12 -Vo l. 1-11: Prayer to protect one who lives in cell from other people and from evil.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 470 – 1000
Date notes:

Quibell et al 1909, p. III.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A34
Archive name: Monastery of Apa Jeremias
State of edition:

Published [no image]

Image:

Form:

Slab
Stela

Material:

Stone (marble, slab)

Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary. Present condition unknown.

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. Recto 12 lines, verso 11 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Saqqara, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1344)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Saqqara, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1344)
Present Location:
Collection History:

Found in situ.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Written in ink on marble slab in room 706.

Part of the text is written in kharaktēres (Quibell et al. 1909: p. 75).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Quibell, James E., Herbert Thompson, and Wilhelm Spiegelberg. Excavations at Saqqara (1907-1908). Cairo: L’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1909, p. 75, no. 168.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

85211

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” 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 (11/4/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (13/12/2019); MPS (1/9/2020); KD (29/9/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M376," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m376. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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