KYPRIANOS DATABASE OF ANCIENT RITUAL TEXTS search icon
MANUSCRIPTS
TEXTS
ARCHIVES
HELP


KYPRIANOS M3806

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

DOW 113
Demotic Ostracon Wångstedt 113

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. 1-9: Formula identifying individual with Anubis; perhaps applied text for childbirth for a woman named Tacheredet.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Demotic)
Script(s):

Demotic
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. -300 – -101
Date notes:

Dated palaeographically; see Winkler 2022: p. 54.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

Ostracon (pottery)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 18 Width: 10.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Dimensions from Winkler 2022: p. 54.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete
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 recto (convex), ll. 1-9.
Hand:

Findspot:

Cairo, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2740)
Place of purchase:

Cairo, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2740)
Writingspot:

Cairo, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2740)
Present Location:

Unknown
Collection History:

Previously part of the collection of Sten. V. Wångstedt; purchased in Cairo in 1966 (Winkler 2022: p. 54).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Winkler, Andreas. “Magical Obstetrics: Anubis, Bird Blood, and a Black Shrew”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 81.1 (2022): 53-70.
Translations:
General:

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:

KD (20/5/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M3806," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3806. Accessed on 29/04/2025

Found a mistake? Let us know!