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KYPRIANOS M630

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

P. Heid. G 2104
P. Baden 4 65
P. Bad. 4 65
P. Baden 5 127
P. Bad. 5 127
P. Bad. IV 65 + V 127
Heidelberg, Seminar für Ägyptologie 2104
Egypt, Qarara, Fundjournal no. 1196

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Liturgical (?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-31: Intercessions of saints and Psalm 135 (LXX 136).

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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:

TM (24/9/18).

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

Published.

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Form:

Tablet

Material:

Wood

Dimensions (cm): Height: 38 Width: 7.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (11/2/2021).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete with some damage.

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, 31 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Hipponon (Qarara), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2634)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hipponon (Qarara), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2634)
Present Location:

Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie
Heidelberg, Seminar für Ägyptologie TM Col. 926

Collection History:

Found in a grave during the Heidelberg excavations at Qarara by Friedrich Bilabel in 1914; Fundjournalnummer 1196 (col. website 11/2/2021; Bilabel and Grohmann 1934; 364).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 156
Collection website: https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/papyri/view/p_g_2104/

Notes/Discussion:

With holes for hanging (TM 24/9/18). Liturgical function unclear (Quecke, Untersuchungen, 252-53).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bilabel, Friedrich, and Adolf Grohmann. Griechische, koptische und arabische Texte zur Religion und religiösen Literatur in Ägyptens Spätzeit. Heidelberg: Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, 1934, p. 364-366, no. 127.

Bilabel, Friedrich. Veröffentlichungen aus den badischen Papyrus-Sammlungen. Heidelberg: Winter, 1924, no. 65.

Rahlfs, Alfred, et al. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 146-147, no. 2201.


Translations:
General:

Cauderlier, Patrice. “Les tablettes grecques d’Égypte: inventaire.” Bibliologia 12 (1992): p. 86 no. 216.

Nauerth, Claudia. Karara und El-Hibe. Die spätantiken (‘koptischen’) Funde aus den badischen Grabungen 1913-1914. Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 1996, p. 154 as “FJ 1196”.


Trismegistos ID:

62265

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

228.86

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

158

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

Merged with data imported from checklist of Ágnes T. Mihálykó by KD (11/11/2019); ST (29/12/2020); ST (8/1/2021); KD (11/2/2021); JS (06/09/229


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M630," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m630. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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