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KYPRIANOS M379

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O. Wadi Sarga 21
C. Pharm. Copt. 17

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Medical (recipes)
Contents:

1. ll. 1-4: Fragmentary prescription (healing).
2. ll. 5-6: Prescription for fever (healing).
3. ll. 7-8: Prescription for a watery eye (healing).
4. l. 9: Healing prescription, perhaps for skin disease.
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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. 601 – 800
Date notes:

Grons 2025: p. 254; TM (20/10/2025): 600-750 AD.
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State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Wall inscription
Material:

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

No measurements given by Crum (1922: p. 52) nor Grons (2025: p. 253).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete, left margin lost. First four lines fragmentary.
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, 9 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Wadi Sarga, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2843)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Wadi Sarga, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2843)
Present Location:

Wadi Sarga (in situ ?)
Collection History:

Wadi Sarga was excavated by R. Campbell Thompson in 1913-1914. Three cemeteries, houses, decorated “church” caverns and other structures were discovered. A full record of excavations was never published. Some ostraca and wall inscriptions were, however, published by Crum and Bell (Crum, Bell 1922).
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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. 253-257, no. 17.

Crum, Walter E., and Harold I. Bell. Wadi Sarga: Coptic and Greek texts. Coptica 3. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel-Nordisk Forlag, 1922, no. 21, p. 52.
Translations:

Till, W.C. Die Arzneikunde der Kopten (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1951), p. 134, no. WS 2 (German).
General:

Trismegistos ID:

371976

 		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 25/9/2018; EL (14/6/2019); KD (13/12/2019); KD (23/6/2022); RBS (24/7/2026)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M379," 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-m379. Accessed on 25/10/2026
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