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KYPRIANOS M607

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O. Egger
PGM 2 234-235

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Liturgical texts (Hymns)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-8: Hymn referring to John 9:1-12 (previously considered as healing amulet for healing of the eyes)
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

Preisendanz (1974: p. 234); Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 32)
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

Ostracon (pottery)
Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete; in 5 fragments.
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, 8 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Paris, Private collection Egger
Collection History:

Acquired in a box of Greek and Coptic inscribed ostraca by Émile Egger, at an auction of books and papers belonging to Arthur des Rivières, who died in Cairo in 1849, on the 23th October 1855 (Egger 1857: p. 384).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 541
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Genre information from Á. Mihálykó (1/8/2019).

Meyer and Smith classify the ostracon as an amulet for healing (Meyer/Smith 1999: p. 32; Preisendanz 1974: p. 234).

Image in Pétridès 1900: p. 362 (https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/rebyz_1146-9447_1900_num_3_6_3302.pdf)

Bibiliography
Editions:

Egger, Émile. “Observations sur quelques fragments de poterie antique provenant d’Égypte, et qui portent des inscriptions grecques.” Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres 21 (1857), p. 377-408.

Leclercq, Henri. “Amulettes.” In Dictionnaire d’Archéologie chrétienne et de Liturgie. Vol. 1.2., edited by Fernand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq, Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ané, 1907, col. 1805-7.

Koenen, Ludwig. “Ein christlicher prosahymnus des 4. jhdts.” In Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 17, edited by Martin David et al. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1968, p. 39-40, no. a.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 32-33, no. 6.

Pétridès, Sophrone. “Un tropaire byzantin sur un fragment de poterie égyptienne.” Revue des études byzantines 3.6 (1900): p. 361-367.

Knopf, Rudolf. “Eine Tonscherbe mit dem Texte des Vaterunser.” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 25. Athens, 1900: p. 320, note 3.

Preisendanz, Karl (ed.). Papyri Graecae magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 234-235, no. O 3.
Translations:
General:

Egger, Émile. Mémoires d’Histoire ancienne et de Philologie. Paris: Paul Dupont, 1863, p. 420-450 (non vidi).

Institut Impérial de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles lettres, séances des 1, 8, 15, 22 et 29 Février. Revue des sociétés savantes de la France et de l’étranger 1. Paris: Paul Dupont, 1856, p. 137-139.

Martín Hernández, Raquel, and Torallas Tovar, Sofìa. “The Use of the Ostracon in Magical Practice in Late Antique Egypt.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 80 (2014): p. 739.

Roehl, Hermannus. Corpus inscriptionum graecarum 4. Berlin, 1877, 9060 m. Taf. XV (non vidi).

Trismegistos ID:

65457

 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

1055

 Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

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 TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (8/10/2020); MPS (25/3/2021); JS (03/11/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M607," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m607. Accessed on 03/11/2025

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