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KYPRIANOS M523

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

Coptic Museum 4330. 90
Cairo JdE 44674.90
P. Mon. Epiph. 559

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

Magical (unclear ?)
Writing exercise (?)
Documentary text (?)

Contents:

Ro ll. 1-?: List of names in alphabetical order. End of another text below it with words “a cross, an obeisance”.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

TM (28/8/2020)

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

TM (23/4/2019)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A25
Archive name: Monastery of Epiphanius
State of edition:

Published (only partial transcription).

Image:

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)

Material:

Ostracon (limestone)

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

No dimensions given in Winlock & Crum 1926.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete, some damage to beginning and end of lines and 12 lines missing.

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 (?).

Hand:

Findspot:

Monastery of Epiphanius, Thebes West, Egypt

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

Monastery of Epiphanius, Thebes West, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

Cairo, Coptic Museum

Collection History:

Excavated 1912-1914 at the Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes. Formerly Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE 44674 . 90.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 72
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Winlock, Herbert E. and Walter E. Crum. The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes. Part II. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926 (repr. 1973), p. 295, no. 559.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

87095

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 (prior to 2019); MPS (23/4/2019); EL (21/6/2019); KD (3/2/2020); MPS (28/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M523," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m523. Accessed on 11/05/2025

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