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KYPRIANOS M504

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

PSI Inv. Ant. s.n.
Antinoupolis III vol. 2 pp. 579-586
Cairo, Egyptian Museum PSI Ant. inv. number unknown

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

Magical (formulary ?)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro ll. 1-4; Remains of protocol.

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-19: Prescription against fever (healing).
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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 – 600
Date notes:

Minutoli (2017: p. 579). 551-600 according to TM (29/12/2020).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 15.3 Width: 15.1 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Minutoli (2017: p. 579).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete.
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 verso (→), 19 lines (magical re-use), written at 90 degrees to original use as protocol (→).
Hand:

Findspot:

Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2774)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2774)
Present Location:

Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Collection History:

Excavated in situ on 28/10/1981. Presumably now held at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but inventory number unknown (Minutoli 2017: p. 579).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 73
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Contains titles (ll.1, 6) therefore perhaps formulary, although the original editor (Minutoli 2017: p. 580) suggests that this is an amulet copied mechanically from a formulary.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Minutoli, Diletta. “Prescrizione magica contro la febbre con brividi.” In: Antinoupolis III. Vol. 2, edited by Rosario Pintaudi. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2017, p. 579-586.
Translations:
General:

Manfredi, M. “Gli scavi italiani ad Antinoe (1935-1993)”, in Antinoe cent’anni dopo. Catalogo della mostra Firenze Palazzo Medici Riccardi, 10 luglio – 1° novembre, edited by L. del Francia Barocas (ed.). Florence: Ist. Papirologico G. Vitelli, 1998, p. 26.

Trismegistos ID:

754102

 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:

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

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M504," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m504. Accessed on 29/10/2025

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