Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Louvre E 6628 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | 1. 1–3: Kharaktēres and damaged text (l. 3). |
| Language(s): | [non-linguistic] |
| Script(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) (?) |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | Seems to be largely non-linguistic, consisting of kharaktēres (KD 30/9/2025). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 900 |
| Date notes: | Preliminary estimate based on typical date of similar texts on papyrus (KD 13/10/2025). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Unpublished. |
| Image: | https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010040488 |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 8 | Width: 10.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (13/10/2025). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some amage along folds and along outside. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 3 lines. Fibre direction unclear from photograph, recto is perhaps → (KD (13/10/2025) |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Paris, Louvre |
| Collection History: | Purchased from Pacha Brugsch, Heinrich Ferdinand Karl, 10/07/1879 or 26/07/1879 (coll. website 30/9/2025). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
274 |
| Collection website: | https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010040488 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| 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 |
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| 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 (30/9/2025); KD (13/10/2025) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M4019," 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-m4019. Accessed on 26/07/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.