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KYPRIANOS M510

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

Berlin P. 10587

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

Magical (unclear)
Contents:

1. Ro col. 1 ll. 1-32 – col. 2 ll. 1-32: Curse against perjurer
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:

Perhaps Middle Egyptian or Fayumic influence on the Sahidic (KD 4/2/20212).Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 8.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 600
Date notes:

Dated to the 5th-6th century based on the hand; cf. PATHS Manuscripts 1020 and 1028 (both 5th century); P. Ryl. Copt. 292 (4th-5th century); P. Oxy. XVI 1928 (533 CE) (KD 4/2/2022). Dated to the 10th century by TM (1/10/2018) following Beltz (1983: p. 79).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. No image. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 28.9 Width: 26.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Maximum dimensions (EL 22/11/2019); 28.5 x 26.5 (Beltz 1983: p. 79)
Folding pattern:

3 vertical and 7 horizontal creases (?)
State of preservation:

Complete, damage to the top right-hand corner.
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):

2 columns recto (→), 31 and 32 lines respectively (pace Beltz who read 34 lines in column 2).
Hand:

Berlin P. 10587 hand

Findspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Excavated in Ashmunein in 1912 (Beltz 1983: p. 79).
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:

Kropp used work by (Wilhelm ?) Hengstenberg in his edition (Kropp 1931.2: p. 240).

Kollesis in col. 1.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpapyri der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 29 (1983): p. 79-81, no. I 555.
Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 238-240, no. 72.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 194-196, no. 92.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

99582

 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

92
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

16

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

2.72

 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 (4/10/2018; 4/9/2019; 22/11/2019); MPS (17/9/2019); KD (22/1/2020); MPS (28/8/2020); KD (4/2/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M510," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m510. Accessed on 29/04/2025

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