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KYPRIANOS M563

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

Strasbourg O. dem. 1338
O. Strassburg D 1338

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-16: Formula to cause menstrual bleeding (curse or healing).
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Demotic)
Script(s):

Demotic
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. -30 – 200
Date notes:

Spiegelberg (1911: p. 35)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

Ostracon (pottery)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 9 Width: 8.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Spiegelberg (1911: p. 35)
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.

1
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto (convex), 16 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: )
Present Location:

Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale
Collection History:

Purchased in Luxor prior to 1911 (Ritner 1995: p. 3343).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 322
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Spiegelberg, Wilhelm. “Aus der Straßburger Sammlung demotischer Ostraka.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 49 (1911): 35-36, no. 1, pl. 6.

Quack, Joachim Friedrich, Demotische magische Papyri, vol. 4 (forthcoming), no. 17.
Translations:

Thissen, Heinz-Joseph. “Nubien in demotischen magischen Texten.” In Ägypten im Afro-Orientalischen Kontext: Aufsätze zur Archäologie, Geschichte und Sprache eines unbegrenzten Raumes: Gedenkschrift Peter Behrens. edited by D. Mendel, and C. Ulrike. Institut für Afrikanistik. Köln, 1991, p. 369-376.

Ritner, Robert Krieg “Egyptian Magical Practice under the Roman Empire: The Demotic Spells and their Religious Context.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edited by W. Haase and H. Temporini, Teil II, Band 18: Religion, 5, 1995, p. 3343-3344.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

52204

 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 (24/2/2020); EL (28/7/2020); KD (9/3/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M563," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m563. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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