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KYPRIANOS M519

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

P. Heid. Aeg. 761
Egypt, Qarara, Fundjournal no. 452
P. Baden 4 60
P. Baden IV 60
P. Bad. 4 60
P. Bad. IV 60

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Biblical (Gospel)
Documentary (school text) (?)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro: Illegible, perhaps earlier attempt at text.

Re-use (palimpsest):

2. Ro ll. 1-12: Tablet containing the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6.9-13), perhaps an amulet to protect a building.
3. Vo: Names and epithets.
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:

Written in Greek with Coptic characters
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 700
Date notes:

Kraus (2006, p. 250). 601-800 (TM 17/9/2020)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Tablet
Material:

Wood
Dimensions (cm): Height: 16.8 Width: 11.8 Depth: .8
Dimensions (notes):

Bilabel (1924: p. 49).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Cracked horizontally into two pieces, otherwise complete.
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):

1 column each, recto and verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Hipponon (Qarara), Egypt

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

Hipponon (Qarara), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: )
Present Location:

Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie
Collection History:

Found in a tomb in Qarara in 1914 (Kraus 2006: p. 250; Seider 1964: 156-7).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 156
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Two holes in upper part for suspension.

Bilabel (1924: p. 51-52) understood this as an amulet. Kraus (2006) suggests this is a school text.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bilabel, Friedrich. Griechische Papyri (Urkunden, Briefle, Schreibtafeln, Ostraka etc.) (P. Baden 4). Heidelberg: Selbstverlag, 1924, p. 49-52, no. 60.
Translations:
General:

Kraus, Thomas J. “Manuscripts with the Lord’s Prayer: They are More than Simply Witnesses to that Text Itself.” In New Testament Manuscripts. Their Texts and their World, edited by Thomas J. Kraus – Tobias Nicklas. Leiden: Brill, 2006, p. 248-250, no. 16, figs. 7-8.

Seider, Richard. “Aus der Arbeit der Universitätsinstitute. Die Universitäts-Papyrussammlung.” Heidelberger Jahrbücher 8 (1964): 142-203.

Trismegistos ID:

65415

 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

346

 Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

157

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

KD (17/9/2020); KD (29/9/2021); SVS (09/08/22)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M519," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m519. Accessed on 29/10/2025

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