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KYPRIANOS M590

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

P. CtYBR inv. 1795

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

Magical (applied ?)

Contents:

1. Ro: Figural Amulet: Three anthropomorphs and two lines of characters

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic) (?)

Script(s):

(Coptic)

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 900
Date notes:

Placeholder date as the hand has not been dated.

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

Published.

Image: http://findit.library.yale.edu/iiif/universal_viewer?oid=15518091&page=1&stream_id=jp2&page=1#page/1/mode/1up

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 13.5 Width: 20.9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Online Catalogue (4/2/2019); 20.6 cm x 13 cm (Petersen 1964: p. 45).

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):
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library

Collection History:

Acquired in 1964 (Collection Website 5/2/2019).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 242
Collection website: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2759556

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Petersen, Theodore C. A Collection of Papyri. New York: H.P. Kraus, 1964, p. 45-46, no. 57.


Translations:
General:

Friedman, Florence D. Beyond the pharaohs. Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th centuries A.D., Providence: : Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1989, p. 200.

http://papyri.info/apis/yale.apis.0017950000


Trismegistos ID:

874135

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:

EL (4/2/2019; 5/2/2019); MPS (30/9/2019); MPS (25/8/2020); KD (24/9/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M590," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m590. Accessed on 24/06/2025

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