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KYPRIANOS M658

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

O. Petrie Mus. 2
O.CrumVC 1 + JNES 5, 1946, 181, 183-184 + Chicago OIM MH1175+MH935

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Biblical (Psalms)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-28: Psalm LXX 30.2-7 (Greek), Psalm LXX 30.2-7 (Coptic)
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Greek
Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Greek
Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

PAThs (19/8/2020)
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 700
Date notes:

TM (19/8/2020).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

Ostracon (pottery)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 23.5 Width: 20 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Römer, Hasitzka 2007: p. 201
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, broken into several 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, 28 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

Chicago, Haskell Oriental Institute
London, University College, Petrie Museum
Collection History:

TM number for Petrie museum is 201.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 98
Collection website: https://oi-idb.uchicago.edu/index.php

Notes/Discussion:

Large ostracon; could have served as amulet for home or cell.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter E. Varia Coptica (O. Crum VC). Aberdeen, The University Press, 1939, p. 7 and p. 1, no. 1.

★ Funghi, Maria S., Savorelli, Gabriella Messeri, and Cornelia Römer. Ostraca greci e bilingui del Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. O. Petr. Mus. Gonnelli, 2012, no. 2.

Römer, Cornelia E., and Monika R. M. Hasitzka, “Psalm 30, 2 – 8 in Greek and Coptic. Joined ostraca in London and Chicago.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 53 (2007): 201-203.

Wikgren, Allen. “Two Ostraca Fragments of the Septuagint Psalter.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 5 (1946): 181-184. [n.b. – name of author is Wikgren, not “Eikgren” as in Römer/Hasitzka 2007]
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

62207

 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”

294

 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

132

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

137

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

KD (11/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (1/11/2019); MPS (19/8/2020); KD (29/9/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M658," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m658. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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