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KYPRIANOS M618

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

Berlin P. 13232
SB 14 11658

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

Oracular response (?)
Documentary (?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-3: Oracular response (?)

Re-use:

2. Vo: ll. 1-2: Documentary text (?)

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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. 301 – 600
Date notes:

TM (1/10/2018); Collection Website (8/5/2019)

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

Published.

Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_13232_V_001.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 3.5 Width: 5.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 55)

Folding pattern:

3 (?) horizontal creases.

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 (↓), 3 lines (oracle ticket).

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/03642/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Horsley, Greg H. R. New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity. Vol. 2. Sydney: Macquarie University, 1977 [1982], p. 39-40.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 14. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1982, no. SB 14 11658

Treu, Kurt. “Varia Christiana I.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 24-25 (1976): 113–127, p. 120, no. 4.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 55, no. 35.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

32941

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:

EL (12/10/2018); MPS (8/5/2019); KD (17/11/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M618," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m618. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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