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KYPRIANOS M3992

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

Dnipro Museum inv. A-827

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. 1-12: Letter of Jesus to Abgar (applied amulet for healing and protection?)
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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:

Berkes & Kistol 2025: p. 20, 22
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon
Material:

Ostracon (pottery)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 13.6 Width: 6.9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Berkes & Kistol 2025: p. 22.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary. Left side preserved with complete height.
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), 12 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

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

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro, Ukraine
Collection History:

Entered the museum’s catalogue before 1917; likely bought by Dmytro Yavornytsky during his trip to Egypt in 1910 (Berkes & Kistol 2025: p. 18-19).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website: https://www.museum.dp.ua/en/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Berkes, Lajos and Anton Kistol. “Jesus’s Reply to Abgar and a Tax Receit: Two Coptic Ostraca in the Dnipro Museum”. Journal of Juristic Papyrology 55 (2025): 17-27
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:

RBS (19/1/2026)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M3992," 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-m3992. Accessed on 26/07/2026
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