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KYPRIANOS M501

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

Burial vault, Tomb of Archbishop Georgios

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

Magical (applied)
Biblical (apocrypha)
Contents:

1. Ceiling, above west wall l. 1: Invocation of Trinity.
2. West wall: Colophon, kharaktēres, Trinitarian formula, cryptograms, divine names, Matthew 1. 1-2, 28.20 (protection)
3. North wall, col. 1 ll. 1-59: Prayer of Mary “in Bartos” (healing, exorcism, good business)
4. North wall, lower ll. 1-5: Sator square
5. North wall, col. 2 ll. 1-9: Mark 1.1-2, 16.20
6. East wall, ll. 1-43: Luke 1.ca. 1-4, 24.53, Prayer of Mary before her Dormition, names of the 12 Apostles.
7. South wall, col. 1 ll. 1-9: John 1.1-3, 21.25.
8. South wall, col. 1 ll. 10-45: Pseudo-Evodius of Rome, Dormition of the Virgin, scribal signature.
9. South wall, col. 2 ll. 1-5: Sator square.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Coptic
Old Nubian
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 1110 – 1120
Date notes:

ca. 1113 CE
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A38
Archive name: Tomb of Georgios
State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Wall inscription
Material:

Wall inscription
Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Chamber 140 cm high, 80 cm wide, 210 cm long; entrance on western wall.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, some damage.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
Pages/Columns (notes):
Hand:

Ioannes (scribe)

Findspot:

Toungoul (Dongola (Old)), Nubia

(TM places ID: 5080)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Toungoul (Dongola (Old)), Nubia

(TM places ID: 5080)
Present Location:

[in situ]
Collection History:

Still in its original position in the Tomb of Georgios in the Monastery of Dongola.
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Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Łajtar, Adam and Jacques van der Vliet. Empowering the Dead: The Texts from a Medieval Funerary Complex in Dongola. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 32. Warsaw: Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation, 2017, p. 61-239 nos. 1–17.

Jakobielski, Stefan, and Piotr O. Scholz (eds.). Dongola-Studien: 35 Jahre polnischer Forschungen im Zentrum des makuritischen Reiches. Bibliotheca nubica et aethiopica 7, Warsaw, 2001.

Jakobielski, Stefan. “Old Dongola 1993.” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 5 (1994): 119–122.

Zurawski, Bogdan. “The Monastery on Kom H in Old Dongola. The monks’ graves: a preliminary report.” Nubica et Aethiopica 4/5 (1994–1995): 222–224.

Jakobielski, Stefan. “Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Old Dongola – a short archaeological report.” In The Spirituality of Ancient Monasticism: Acts of the International Colloquium held in Kracow-Tyniec 16-19th November 1994, edited by Marek Starowieyski. Pontificia Academia theologica cracoviensis. Facultas theologica, Studia IV/I. Tyniec: Wydawnictwo Benedyktynów, 1995, p. 40-43.

Jakobielski, Stefan.“Das Kloster der Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit. Baufasen des nordwestlichen Anbaus.“ In Dongola-Studien. 35 Jahre polnischer Forschungen im Zentrum des makuritischen Reichs. Bibliotheca nubica et aethiopica 7, edited by Stefan Jakobielski and Piotr O. Scholz. Warszawa 2001, p. 164–165.

Müller, C. Detlef G. “Schutzinschriften einer Grablege in Alt-Dongola. Zu nubischen Geheimwissenschaften.” In Dongola-Studien: 35 Jahre polnischer Forschungen im Zentrum des makuritischen Reiches. Bibliotheca nubica et aethiopica 7, edited by Stefan Jakobielski and Piotr O. Scholz. Warsaw, 2001, p. 321-326.

Sheridan, Mark. “A Homily on the Death of the Virgin Mary attributed to Evodius of Rome.” Coptic studies on the threshold of a new millennium: proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, Leiden 27 August-2 September 2000, edited by M. Immerzeel and Jacques van der Vliet. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 133, vol. 1. Louvain – Paris 2004, p. 393-394.

Jakobielski, Stefan (ed.). Polskie wykopaliska w Starej Dongoli: 45 lat współpracy archeologicznej z Sudanem / Polish excavations at Old Dongola: 45 years of the archaeological co-operation with the Sudan. Warsaw: Muzeum Narodowe 2006, p. 28-29.
Translations:
General:

Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Sethians and Their Texts in Christian Egypt in the 4th and 5th Centuries.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 86 (2020): 110-112.

van der Vliet, Jacques.”Literature, Liturgy, Magic: A Dynamic Continuum.” In Christianity in Egypt: Literary Production and Intellectual Trends. Studies in Honor of Tito Orlandi, edited by Paola Buzi and Alberto Camplani. Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2011, 555-574.

Trismegistos ID:

371260
371261
371254
371251
371248

 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 (31/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (21/1/2020); MPS (14/2/2020); KD (8/9/2020); KD (29/9/2021); JS (11/10/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M501," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m501. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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