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KYPRIANOS M623

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

P. Köln XVII 677
P. Köln 17 677
Köln Inv. 4353

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

Medical (recipes)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. x+1-2: Fragment of an unclear text
2. Ro ll. x+3-5: Fragment of a prescription referring to nine seeds, blood, and navel (?)
3. Vo ll. x+1/1-3: Fragment of an unclear text
4. Vo ll. x+2/1-3: Fragment of a recipe referring to zinc oxide (?) and washing (?)
5. Vo ll. x+3/1-3: Fragment of a recipe referring to oozing wound and liquid

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Bohairic

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes; Collection Website (21/8/2020)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 801 – 1000
Date notes:

Love (2021); 701-900 (Collection Website 21/8/2020)

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

Published.

Image: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/inedita/bilder/PK4353r.jpg & http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/inedita/bilder/PK4353v.jpg

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 7.6 Width: 4.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Love (2021).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, torn on all sides.

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 recto, 3 columns verso. 5 surviving lines recto, 9 surviving lines verso.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Cologne, Papyrussammlung

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 172
Collection website: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/inedita/PKI4353.html

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Love, Edward O. D. “677. Fragment of a Coptic Medical Formulary”, In Kölner Papyri. Band 17. (P. Köln XVII), edited by Charikleia Armoni, Thomas Bakhuys, Sandra Lippert, Edward O.D. Love, Eleni Skarsouli, Natalia Vega Navarrete, and Riccardo Vecchiato. Paderborn: Brill, 2021, p. 206-209, no. 677.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

644158

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 (2016); MPS (30/9/2019); MPS (21/8/2020); EL (1/9/2020); KD (6/10/2021); MPS (26/2/2024)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M623," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m623. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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