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KYPRIANOS M670

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

O. Crum 22
Cairo CG 8138

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

Magical (applied ?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-22 – Vo ll. 1-9: Letter of Jesus to Abgar
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 1000
Date notes:

TM (23/10/2018)
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)
Material:

Ostracon (limestone)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 25 Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

No width given in Crum (1902)
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete, some damage to final lines.
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, 22 lines, 1 column verso, 9 (?) lines (verso omitted in Crum 1902).
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Al-Arish, Al-Arish Museum
Collection History:

Communication from the Registration, Collections Management
and Documentation Department of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (26/4/2021). Formerly in the Egyptian Museum.
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Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter E. Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Cairo Museum and others (O. Crum). London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902, I. p. 8 (translation), II. p. 6-7 (text), no. 22.
Translations:
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 191-193.

Crum, Walter Ewing. Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du musée du caire. Coptic Monuments (CGC). Osnabrück: Otto Zeller Verlag, 1975, p. 41, no. 8138.

Geerard, Maurice. Clavis apocryphorum Novi Testamenti. Turnhout: Brepold, 1992, p. 67, no. 88.7 (non vidi).

Trismegistos ID:

110390

 PAThs: 6381
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”

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 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 (23/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (2/10/2019); MPS (18/8/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M670," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m670. Accessed on 23/12/2025

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