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KYPRIANOS M386

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

BM EA 33034
O. Crum 490
BM Registration number 1900,1120.254

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. 1-2 – Vo ll. 1-6: Phōne Anēr formula; Sator formula

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 800
Date notes:

TM (30/1/2019). Collection website (30/1/2019) states 7th-8th.

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

Published.

Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)

Material:

Ostracon (pottery)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 11.2 Width: 14.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (30/1/2019).

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.

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each, recto and verso. Recto 2 lines, verso 6 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Monastery of Apa Phoibammon, Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt
Monastery of Apa Phoibammon

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

London, British Museum

Collection History:

Donated by the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1900. Excavated by Henri Édouard Naville (1893-94) on behalf of the EEF (Collection website 2/9/2020).

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

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter E. Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Cairo Museum and others. London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902, p. 80, no. 490.


Translations:
General:

Cromwell, Jennifer. Review of Coptica. Koptische Ostraka und Papyri, koptische und griechische Grabstelen aus Ägypten und Nubien, spätantike Bauplastik, Textilien und Keramik. Katalog Ägyptischer Sammlungen in Leipzig 3, edited by Suzana Hodak, Tonio Sebastian Richter, and Frank Steinmann. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 52 (2015): 337-349.


Trismegistos ID:

83379

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 (30/1/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (17/12/2019); MPS (2/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M386," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m386. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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