Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Mon. Epiph. 574 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Medical (recipe) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro l. 1 – Vo l. 5: Medical recipe against vomiting blood (healing). |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
601 – 750 |
| Date notes: | Grons 2025: p. 242; TM (24/7/2026): 600-775 AD; Metropolitan Museum of Art Col. website (24/9/2018): 580–640 AD |
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Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
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KYP A25 |
| Archive name: | Monastery of Epiphanius |
| State of edition: | Published |
| Image: | https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/474491 |
| Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 13.8 | Width: 10 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Metropolitan Museum of Art Col. website (24/9/2018) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete, well preserved, legible. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto and verso. 10 lines recto, 5 verso. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Monastery of Epiphanius, Thebes West, Egypt (TM places ID: 1341) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Monastery of Epiphanius, Thebes West, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1341) |
| Present Location: | New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Egyptian) Accession no. 12.180.79 |
| Collection History: | Excavated from the rubbish heaps (Winlock and Crum 1926: p. 298). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
247 |
| Collection website: | https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/474491 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: |
★ Grons, Anne. Medizinische Rezepttexte in koptischer Sprache (C.Pharm.Copt.). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beiheft 56. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, p. 241-244, no. 14, plates 13a-b. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
Evans, Helen C. and Brandie Ratliff (ed.). Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, 7th–9th century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012, no. 15B, p. 26. |
| Trismegistos ID: |
87110 |
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: | MPS 24/9/2018; KD (20/3/2019); EL (21/6/2019); KD (20/1/2020); KD (23/1/2022); RBS (24/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M478," 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-m478. Accessed on 27/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.