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KYPRIANOS M480

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

Moen Inv. no. 596
SEG 31 1571
Baarn, Private collection Moen 596

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. 1-2 + vo ll. 1-2: Bous formula (applied amulet for healing/protection?).
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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. 501 – 700
Date notes:

TM (29/12/2020); Pleket & Stroud (1981); Sijpesteijn (1981: p. 112, no. 4).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Tablet
Material:

Bone
Dimensions (cm): Height: 3 Width: 4.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Kraus (2008: p. 481, no. 6); Sijpesteijn (1981: p. 112, no. 4).
Folding pattern:
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.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each, recto and verso. 2 lines recto, 2 lines verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Baarn, Private collection Moen
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 456
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Pleket, Henry W., and Stroud, Ronald S. “SEG 31-1571. Egypt. Unknown provenance. Inscription of unknown character, 6th – 7th cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 31 (SEG 31), edited by A. Chaniotis et al., 1981, no. 1571 [a+b] (SEG 31 1571).

Sijpesteijn, Pieter J. “Objects with Script in the Collection Moen.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 42 (1981): 112, no. 4.
Translations:
General:

Kraus, Thomas J. “Bους, Bαινχωωχ und Septuaginta-Psalm 90? Überlegungen zu den sogenannten ‘Bous’-Amuletten und dem beliebtesten Bibeltext für apotropäische Zwecke.” Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 11 (2008): 481, no. 6.

Trismegistos ID:

104941
104942

 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)"

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

ST (29/12/2020); KD (11/2/2021); KD (26/3/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M480," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m480. Accessed on 29/10/2025

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