Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
|
Turin Provv. 8539 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Amuletic text mentioning the shadow of the wings of the seraphim, and female demons (healing/protection ?). |
| Form: | Codex (?) |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 7 | Width: 10.4 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Dimensions from Monir (2025). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary; left and lower margins lost; right margin partially preserved. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
|
1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto (→), 4 surviving lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Turin, Museo Egizio |
| Collection History: | The circumstances of acquisition are not clear; may have been acquired as part of the Drovetti collection in 1824, or sometime in the 20th century (Töpfer 2025: p. 57). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
334 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | The writing on the horizontal fibres, and the fact that the text seems to begin in the middle of a longer invocation, perhaps implies that we are dealing with the last page of a codex, but it cannot be ruled out that this is simply a loose sheet, in which case it may be an applied amulet (KD 19/12/2025). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: |
Monir, Nesreen. “Invocation for Protection (P. Turin Provv. 8539)”, in Coptica Taurinensia: Coptic Papyri from the Museo Egizio, edited by Susanne Töpfer, Lajos Berkes, Anne Boud’hors, Costanza Bianchi, Esther Garel, Frederic Krueger, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Gesa Schenke. Turin: Museo Egizio, 2025, pp. 213-217. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
Töpfer, Susanne. “The Coptic Papyri in the Museo Egizio: An Overview”, in Coptica Taurinensia: Coptic Papyri from the Museo Egizio, edited by Susanne Töpfer, Lajos Berkes, Anne Boud’hors, Costanza Bianchi, Esther Garel, Frederic Krueger, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Gesa Schenke. Turin: Museo Egizio, 2025, p. 57. |
| Trismegistos ID: | PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
|
SM:
Supplementum Magicum
|
GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
|
ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
|
||||
| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
||||
| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | KD (16/4/2024) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M3956," 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-m3956. Accessed on 19/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.