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KYPRIANOS M421

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PGM Christian 5c
Var26
Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 10696
P. Cairo CG 10696
Formerly Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE 502

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. 1-6: Amulet for protection, contains incipits of Gospels and citation from Psalm 21 (22)
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 600
Date notes:

TM (19/2/2019); Grenfell, Hunt 1903, p. 85.
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.4 Width: 26.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Grenfell, Hunt 1903, p. 85; Preisendanz 1931, p. 193.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary.
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, 6 lines.
Hand:

Semi-cursive writing.

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 73
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Grenfell, Bernard P., and Athur S. Hunt. Catalogue général des antiquités du musée du Caire. No. 10001-10869. Greek Papyri. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903, p. 85, no. 10696.

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 193-194, Christliches no. 5c.
Translations:
General:

Aland, Kurt. Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri. Biblische Papyri, Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Vol. 1. Patristische Texte und Studien 18. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1976, no. 26.

Biondi, Alessandro. “Le citazioni bibliche nei papiri magici cristiani greci.” Stud. Pap. 20 (1979): 111.

de Bruyn, Theodore. “Papyri, Parchments, Ostraca, and Tablets Written with Biblical Texts in Greek and Used as Amulets: A Preliminary List.” In Early Christian Manuscripts: Examples of Applied Method and Approach, edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. Leiden: Brill, 2010, p. 185.

Mirecki, Paul A. “Evangelion-Incipits Amulets in Greek and Coptic: Towards a Typology.” In Proceedings of the Central States Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research. Vol. 4, edited by J. J. Johnson Leese. Kirkwood: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001, p. 148, no. 7.

de Bruyn, Theodore S., and Jitse Dijkstra. “Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Elements. A Checklist of Papyri, Parchments, Ostraka, and Tablets.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011): 186, no. 22.

Pietersma, Albert. Two Manuscripts of the Greek Psalter in tjhe Chester Beatty Library Dublin. Rome: Typis Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae, 1978, pp. 13-14.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Albert Henrichs. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, pp. 213-214, no. 5c.

Rahlfs, Alfred, and Detlef Fraenkel. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 163.

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, p. 93, no. 16.

van Haelst, Joseph. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1976, pp. 294-295, no. 897.

Trismegistos ID:

64858

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 5c

 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

897

 Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

22

 TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (19/2/2019); MPS (28/9/2020); SG (25/07/2025)

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[Editor names]. "KYP M421," 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-m421. Accessed on 26/10/2026
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