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KYPRIANOS M495

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

Berlin P. 8503
P. Berlin 8503

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. 1-44-Vo. ll. 1-6: Silencing curse for Aptellah, son of Teleppheu, against Moufleh al-Pahani
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes. Cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 381), who lists the text as Sahidic.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 701 – 900
Date notes:

Richter (2015: p. 97); TM (1/10/2018); 701-800 (Beltz 1984: p. 95)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 16 Width: 15 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Beltz (1984: p. 94); Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 199)
Folding pattern:

3 (?) horizontal folds.
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.

3
Pages/Columns (notes):

2 columns recto, 44 lines. 1 column verso, 6 lines. Verso at 180 degrees to recto.
Hand:

Berlin 8503 Hand

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Purchased from the antiquities market in 1896 (Beltz 1984: p. 94)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: http://berlpap.smb.museum/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpergamente der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museeun zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 30 (1984): p. 94-97, no. III 23.
Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 243-247, no. 75.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 199-202, no. 95.

Pernigotti, Sergio. Testi della magia copta, Imola: Editrice La Mandragora, 2000, p. 76-78, no. 46.
General:

Love, Edward O.D. “Bilingualism and Mono-/Bigraphia at the Nexus of Magical Traditions: From Egyptian-Greek to Coptic-Arabic Magical Texts”, in Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt, edited by Lajos Berkes. Ann Arbor: American Society of Papyrologists, 2002, p. 192.

Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Markedness and Unmarkedness in Coptic Magical Writing.” 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. 97.

Trismegistos ID:

99586

 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

95
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

28

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

2.75

 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)"

99586

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

EL (24/10/2018); MPS (16/9/2019); KD (20/1/2020); MPS (28/8/2020); EL (28/8/2020); KD (19/7/2021); KD (13/7/2021); KD (21/3/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M495," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m495. Accessed on 27/10/2025

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