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KYPRIANOS M472

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

Köln Inv. 20837
P. Köln Gr. 12 493

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. 1-8: Sequence of voces magicae, perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection.

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Language(s):

[non-linguistic]

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:

Uses fai (ϥ) in l. 8, indicating script is Coptic rather than Greek (KD 20/1/2020).

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

TM and collection website (5/3/2019)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/DS_lp_61/img/20837/orig/493_300300.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 10 Width: 22 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (5/3/2019).

Folding pattern:

3 vertical, 1 horizontal crease (?).

State of preservation:

Complete.

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, flesh-side, 8 lines. 7 wing-shaped text formations.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Cologne, Papyrussammlung

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 172
Collection website: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Schenke, Gesa. “Zauberformular.” In Kölner Papyri (P. Köln). Papyrologica Coloniensia. Vol. VII/12, edited by Charikleia Armoni et al. Paderborn: Abhandlun­gen der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, 2010, p. 193-194, no. 493; pl. 30.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

128913

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”

192

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:

MPS (5/3/2019); EL (29/3/2019); KD (20/1/2020); MPS (9/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M472," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m472. Accessed on 12/05/2025

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