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KYPRIANOS M473

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SB 18 13323
Brussels, Musées Royaux E 6801

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Documentary (school text)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-6: Psalm 28.3 repeated six times; school text or amulet.
2. Vo ll. 1-6: Greek alphabet, vowels (6 times), Coptic letters.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:

Includes the Sahidic inventory of Coptic letters.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

6th-7th century (Préaux 1935, 362).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://www.carmentis.be/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=DynamicAsset&sp=SU5mxm4Yx%2FVbhp94nksEmWhUPPCPARCxmRF3wZoiekBYI9dLioBnZzXySIRTomizoxxT9oo9OlonT%0APnyO6EhNhqJhq4t%2F%2BLzvsfbLBbc2NAKqW677oPUO4s0Ke0T8uKj4u7H1%2FIk32Pc%3D&sp=Simage%2Fjpeg

Form:

Tablet
Material:

Wood
Dimensions (cm): Height: 12.1 Width: 29.8 Depth: 1.8
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (17/9/2020)
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, slightly faded.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each, recto and verso. 6 lines each. Gap in the middle of each line of recto.
Hand:

Findspot:

Upper Egypt (?); Middle Egypt (?)

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

Upper Egypt (?); Middle Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: )
Present Location:

Brussels, Musées Royaux
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
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Collection website: https://www.carmentis.be:443/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=83661&viewType=detailView

Notes/Discussion:

TM (17/9/2020) say that the tablet is painted white, but this is not apparent in photographs.

Holes at top for suspension.

Préaux (1935) understood this text as an amulet. Cribiore (1996), but de Haro Sanchez & Carlig (2015) and Vanthieghem, Martin & Delattre (2020) argue convincingly that this is a school exercise.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Préaux, Claire, “Une amulette chrétienne aux Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire de Bruxelles”, Chronique d‘Égypte 10 (1935): 361-370.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Joachim Hengstl, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten XVIII. Wiesbaden, 1993, no. 13323.

Vanthieghem, Naïm, Alain Martin, and Alain Delattre. “Dans les classes de l’Égypte byzantine: à propos de deux tablettes et d’un manuel scolaires.” À l’école de l’Antiquité. Hommages à Ghislaine Viré (2020): 11-41.
Translations:
General:

Bucking, Scott. “A Sahidic Coptic Manuscript in the Private Collection of Lloyd E. Cotsen (P. Cotsen 1) and the Limits of Papyrological Interpretation,” Journal of Coptic Studies 8 (2006), p. 67-68;

Cauderlier, Patrice. “Les tablettes grecques d’Égypte: inventaire,” Bibliologia 12 (1992), p. 86 no. 220 and p. 91 no. 288;

Cribiore, Raffaella, Writing,, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt, Atlanta; Scholar’s Press, 1996, 213, no. 169.

de Haro Sanchez, Magali and Nathan Carlig, “Amulettes ou exercices scolaires: sur les difficultés de la catégorisation des papyrus chrétiens.” In Écrire la magie dans l’antiquité – Scrivere la magia nell’Antichità: Proceedings of the International Workshop (Liège, October 13–15, 2011), Papyrologica Leodiensia 5, edited by Magali de Haro Sanchez. Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2015, p. 77-78, plate VII.

Delattre, Alain and Klaas A.Worp, “Trois tablettes de bois du Musée de Leyde,” Chronique d’Egypte 87 (2012): p 379-380.

Trismegistos ID:

62205
36294

 		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:

KD (17/9/2020); KD (26/1/2026)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M473," 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-m473. Accessed on 27/10/2026
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