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KYPRIANOS M667

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

P. Moscow Copt. 93 & 94

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Liturgical (prayer) (?)
Genealogical inscription
Oracle ticket (?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-26: Genealogical inscription with list of Pachomian and Shenoutean leaders
2. Vo ll. 1-10: Prayer to protect Pesunthios the Small
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 1100
Date notes:

Must date from after the period of Shenoute (i.e. 5th century or later).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)
Material:

Ostracon (limestone)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 9.5 Width: 4.1 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Apparently damaged since Turayev’s publication; Jernstedt notes size as 3.5 x 3.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, but broken into two fragments; larger fragment now lost.
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 each, recto and verso. Recto 26 lines, 10 lines verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (?)
Collection History:

Previously in the St Petersburg, Private collection Golenischeff; present location unknown; perhaps Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (?) given its inclusion in P.Moscow (?).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 234
Collection website: http://www.museum.ru/

Notes/Discussion:

Choat (2015) does not discuss this specific example, but does deal with similar genealogical inscriptions.

ÁM suggests that text 2 may be an oracle ticket (21/5/2020).

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Jernstedt, Piotr Коптские тексты государственного музея изобразительных искусств (P.MoscowCopt) (Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1959), p. 178-182, no. 93 & 94.

Turayev, B.A “Коптскія острака коллекціи В.С. Голенищева”, Bulletin de l’Academie imperiale des sciences de St.-Petersbourg 10 (1899): p. 445-446, no. 20.
Translations:
General:

Choat, Malcolm. “Narratives of Monastic Genealogy in Coptic Inscriptions.” Religion in the Roman Empire 1.3 (2015): 403-430.

Trismegistos ID:

874139

 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:

KD (19/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (14/2/2020); KD (21/5/2020); KD (22/6/2020); KD (29/9/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M667," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m667. Accessed on 23/12/2025

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