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KYPRIANOS M524

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Crum MS XII
Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus

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Letter to a god
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-21: Letter to the god Osiris in Hasro by Esrmpe, daughter of Kllaouj, against Hor, son of Tasneou.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Demotic)
Script(s):

Coptic (Old)
Dialect:

Sahidic (Love 2022: §3.1.5)
Language/dialect notes:

The presence of nominalised participles demonstrates that the form of the language is Demotic rather than Coptic (Love 2022: §3.1.5).
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 101 – 150
Date notes:

Love 2022: §3.13; c. 100 CE (Crum 1942: p. 21)
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State of edition:

Published by Satzinger 1975. Re-edition in Love 2022.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 9.4 Width: 8.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Largest fragment of two, manuscript lost, measurements from image (Love 2022: §3.1.2); 13.2cm x 10.2cm (one piece) (Satzinger 1975: p. 38)
Folding pattern:

4 (?) vertical creases (Love 2022: §3.1.2)
State of preservation:

Incomplete, fragmentary.
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):

21 lines preserved in 2 (?) fragments (Love 2022: §3.1.2)
Hand:

Findspot:

Tenis – Hakoris (Tehna), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2309)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Tenis – Hakoris (Tehna), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2309)
Present Location:

Archive of the Griffith Institute, Oxford
Collection History:

Acquired by Carl Schmidt in 1937 (Crum 1942: p. 21), image sent to Crum by Schmidt now held in the Griffith Institute as Crum MS XII (Love 2022: §3.1.1).
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Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Satzinger, Helmut. “The Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 12 (1975): 37-51.

Meltzer, Edmunt S. ” Addendum To ‘Old Coptic Texts of Ritual Power’: ‘A Woman’s Complaint About Neglect” (The Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus), Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power p. 20, 357’. (Available online at https://www.academia.edu/25778627/ADDENDUM_TO_OLD_COPTIC_TEXTS_OF_RITUAL_POWER_A_WOMANS_COMPLAINT_ABOUT_NEGLECT_THE_OLD_COPTIC_SCHMIDT_PAPYRUS_ANCIENT_CHRISTIAN_MAGIC_COPTIC_TEXTS_OF_RITUAL_POWER_PP_20_357)

Love, Edward O. D. Petitioning Osiris: The Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia in Context among the Letters to Gods from Egypt. Berlin, 2022, p. 28; 45.
Translations:

Frankfurter, David. “‘It is Esrmpe who appeals!’ Place, Object, and Performance in a Quest for Pregnancy in Roman Egypt”, in Placing Ancient Texts The Ritual and Rhetorical Use of Space, edited by Mika Ahuvia and Alexander Kocar (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018), 181-196.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 21, no. 1.

Love, Edward O. D. 2022. Petitioning Osiris: The Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia in Context among the Letters to Gods from Egypt. Berlin, p. 28; 45.
General:

Crum, Walter E. “An Egyptian Text in Greek Characters.” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 28 (1942): 20-31.

Hevesi, Krisztina. “A Few Remarks on the Persistence of Native Egyptian historiolae in Coptic Magical Texts”. In Current Research in Egyptology 2018: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 25-28 June 2018, edited by Marie Peterková Hlouchová, Dana Belohoubková, Jirí Honzl and Vera Nováková. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019, 42-54.

Roquet, Gérard. “« Mon papyrus de Tehneh ». Provenance du texte vieux-copte Carl Schmidt d’après les manuscrits de Pierre Lacau.” In Aere perennius. Mélanges égyptologiques en l’honneur de Pascal Vernus. (OLA 242), edited by Philippe Collombert, and Pascal Vernus. Leuven: Peeters, 2016, 663-676.

Love, Edward O. D. 2022. Petitioning Osiris: The Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia in Context among the Letters to Gods from Egypt. Berlin, p. 28; 45.

Trismegistos ID:

92845

 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

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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:

MPS (23/4/2019); KD (13/11/2020); EL (14/9/2021); KD (27/5/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M524," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m524. Accessed on 29/10/2025

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