KYP M430

KYPRIANOS DATABASE OF ANCIENT RITUAL TEXTS

MANUSCRIPTS

TEXTS

ARCHIVES

HELP

KYPRIANOS M430

Sigla:

PGM Christian 9
BGU 3 954
BGU III 954
Mertens-Pack 6029
Var28

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Magical (applied)
Contents:	1. Ro ll. 1-30: Amulet against disease, evil eye, and demons for a man named Silouanus son of Sarapion. May be exorcism, asks for demon of witchcraft (δαίμονα προβασκανίας) to be driven from him.
	See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):	Greek
Script(s):	Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	501 – 600
Date notes:	TM (12/2/2019) Wilcken 1912: p. 159. Jones 2015, p. 114.
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:	Published.
Image:

Form:	Sheet
Material:	Papyrus

Dimensions (cm):

Height:

Width:

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	No dimension given in any source except Jones 2015, p. 114, who states 2 x 1 cm when folded.
Folding pattern:	Folded in antiquity and found folded, with a red/brown thread (Wilcken 1912: p. 159; Jones 2015: p. 114).
State of preservation:	Complete, after unfolding damaged (Wilcken 1901: p. 431).
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, 30 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:	Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina), Egypt (TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase:	(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:	Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 801)
Present Location:
Collection History:	Found in Herakleopolis Magna on February 20th 1899 by Ulrich Wilken. Now lost; burned on 1899 in Hamburg (Jones 2015: p. 114).
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website:	https://berlpap.smb.museum/00749/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography

Editions:	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, Var28. ★ Jones, Brice C. “New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity and Their Relevance for Textual Criticism.” PhD thesis, Concordia University, 2015, p. 114-119, no. 10. Ägyptische Urkunden aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Griechische Urkunden. Vol. 3. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1903, p. 278, no. 954. Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 197, no. 9. Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” Patrologia orientalis 18 (1924): 420-422. Wilcken, Ulrich. “Heidnisches und Christliches aus Ägypten.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 1 (1901): 431-436. Wilcken, Ulrich. Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Vol. 1. Leipzig – Berlin: Teubner, 1912, p. 159, no. 133.
Translations:	Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 42, no. 18.
General:	Biondi, Alessandro. “Le citazioni bibliche nei papiri magici cristiani greci.” Stud. Pap. 20 (1979): 113. Boswinkel, E. et al. eds. Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 5. Leiden: Brill, 1969, p. 14. 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. 166. 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): 188, no. 26. Κουκουλές, Φ.: “Ἐκ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν παπύρων.” Βυζαντίς 2 (1912): 503. Kraus, Thomas J. “Manuscripts with the Lord’s Prayer. They Are More Than Simply Witnesses to That Text Itself.” In New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their Worlds, edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp. 146-147. La’da, C. A. and A. Papathomas. “A Greek Papyrus Amulet from the Duke Collection with Biblical Excerpts.” BASP 41 (2004): 112. Leclercq, Henri, “Papyrus.” In Dictionnaire d’Archéologie chrétienne et de Liturgie 13,1, edited by Ferdinand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq. Paris: Leouzey, pp. 1387-1388. Milligan, George. Selections from the Greek Papyri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910, p. 132. 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. 146, no. 6. O’Callaghan, J. El Cristianismo Popular en el Antiguo Egipto. Madrid: Cristiandad, 1925, p. 119. Sanzo, Joseph E. “Canonical Power: A ‘Tactical’ Approach to the Use of the Christian Canon in P. Berlin 954.” Saint Shenouda Coptic Quarterly 4 (2008): 28-45. Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, pp. 91-92, no. 15. Schermann, T. Ägyptische Abendmahlsliturgien des ersten Jahrtausends. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1912, p. 206. van Haelst, Joseph. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1976, p. 263, no. 720.

Trismegistos ID:

64990

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae	Christian 9	SM: Supplementum Magicum		GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic	18
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	6029
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires	720	Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"	26	TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum	To Zodion:

Edit History:

MPS (12/2/2019); MPS (28/9/2020); SG (25/07/2025)

How to cite:

[Editor names]. "KYP M430," 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-m430. Accessed on 26/10/2026
For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.

How to cite:

Found a mistake? Let us know!