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KYPRIANOS M546

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Bodleian Copt. Inscr. 426

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

Magical (applied ?)
Contents:

1. Ro. A ll. 1-19: Incipits of the four gospels in canonical order.

2. Vo. A ll.1-16: List of the twelve apostles substituting Matthias for Judas Iscariot
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:

Mirecki 2002: p. 51.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 700
Date notes:

Crum 1922, p. 544. Mirecki (2002: p. 51) defers to Crum, but notes that similar hands are found in manuscripts dating to 903-1006.
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)
Material:

Ostracon (limestone)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 24.2 Width: 24.2 Depth: .13
Dimensions (notes):

Mirecki 2002: p. 48.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

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. 19 lines recto, 16 verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

Oxford, Bodleian Library
Collection History:

Acquired by Norman de Garis Davies, deposited in Bodleian Museum, Oxford. (Crum 1922: p. 544; Mirecki 2002: p. 47).
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Notes/Discussion:

Hole drilled through stone at bottom edge; Crum suggests it was hung upside down from this.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Mirecki, Paul. “A Seventh-Century Limestone in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.” In Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World. Leiden, Brill, 2002, p. 47-69.
Translations:
General:

Crum, Walter E. “La magie copte: nouveaux textes.” In Recueil d’études égyptologiques dédiées à la mémoire de Jean-François Champollion à l’occasion du centenaire de la lettre à M. Dacier relative à l’alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques. Paris: Champion, 1922, p. 544.

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Einleitung in Koptische Zaubertexte. Vol. 3. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1930, p. 210-211, §360.

Trismegistos ID:

872742

 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”

138

 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 (pre-2019); EL (23/1/2019); MPS (24/9/2019); KD (31/1/2020); MPS (27/8/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M546," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m546. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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