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KYPRIANOS M498

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

Louvre E 32317

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (applied)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Unclear, effaced.

Re-use (palimpsest):

1. Ro ll. 1-6: Prayer to Jesus for protection from sickness, anger, evil eye to protect Sethelecnet daughter of Sarah.

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic with Bohairic features

Language/dialect notes:

Bosson 1998: p. 108.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 1101 – 1200
Date notes:

Bosson 1998: p. 107; 901-1000 (Collection Website 21/3/2019).

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

Published.

Image: http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=obj_view_obj&objet=cartel_28022_35620_E32317.001.jpg_obj.html&flag=true

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Paper

Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.3 Width: 22.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Bosson 1998: p. 107.

Folding pattern:

1 horizontal crease, 8 vertical creases.

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 recto, 6 lines. Original text barely visible.

Hand:

Findspot:

Deir el-Medina, Thebes West, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Deir el-Medina, Thebes West, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

Paris, Louvre

Collection History:

Purchased by the Louvre on the 5/10/1995 (coll. website 1/10/2021).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 274
Collection website: http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=28022&langue=fr

Notes/Discussion:

One of a lot of 22 folded Egyptian amulets from Deir el-Medina (Bosson 1998: p. 107).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bosson, Nathalie. “Amulette-palimpseste magique du musée du Louvre.” Orientalia, NOVA SERIES 67.1 (1998): p. 107-114.


Translations:
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “’Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.’ The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic.” Vigiliae Christianae 78 (2024): p. 58-86, esp. p. 86.


Trismegistos ID:

874205

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:

EL (21/3/2019); MPS (16/9/2019); KD (21/1/2020); MPS (28/8/2020); KD (2/2/2024)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M498," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m498. Accessed on 12/05/2025

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