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KYPRIANOS M3783

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

Bawit, Courtyard 47, East wall, text IV.

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Contents:

1. Recto ll. 1-25: Fragmentary text of the letter of Jesus to Abgar.
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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. 401 – 900
Date notes:

Bélanger Sarrazin 2021 and Clackson 2002: p. 198. Other wall inscriptions from the same location date between the 4th and 8th century (TM 17/12/2021).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Wall inscription
Material:

Wall inscription (plaster)
Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Inscription on a wall, dimensions not noted in principal publication.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, but lines 15 to 21 illegible.
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):

Written under a window of the courtyard, in about 25 lines, flanked from both sides by ornamental lines (MIFAO 111: p. 98).
Hand:

Findspot:

Abba Apollotos Monasterion (Bawit)

(TM places ID: 10454)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Abba Apollotos Monasterion (Bawit)

(TM places ID: 10454)
Present Location:

Abba Apollotos Monasterion (Bawit)
Collection History:

In situ.
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Notes/Discussion:

Location suggests the text had either funerary or teaching function (Clackson 2002: p. 193).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Clédat, Jean. Le Monastère et la nécropole de Baouit. Edited by Dominique Bénazeth and Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya, with contributions by Anne Boud’hors, René-Georges Coquin, Éliane Gaillard. MIFAO 111. Cairo: Institut français d’Archéologie orientale; 1999, p. 98-100.
Translations:
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “The Abgar Correspondence in Coptic and the Production of Magical Manuscripts by Monks.” Handout from the Apocrypha Workshop – Oslo, 4 December 2021.

Clackson, Sarah. Review: “Le Monastère et la nécropole de Baouit by Jean Clédat et. al. 1999.” The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 39.1/4 (2002): 189-204.

Trismegistos ID: 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 (17/12/2021); MPS (20/12/2021); MPS (17/1/2022); KD (15/2/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M3783," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3783. Accessed on 29/10/2025

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