KYP M673

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KYPRIANOS M673

Sigla:

P. TT 157-470
C. Pharm. Copt. 5

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Medical (recipes)
Contents:	1. Ro col. x+1 ll. x+1-3: Fragmentary text (prescription for healing eyes?) 2. Ro col. x+1 ll. x+4-7: Prescription for healing eyes (kollurium) 3. Ro col. x+1 ll. x+8-12: Prescription for healing eyes (kollurium) 4. Ro col. x+1 ll. x+12-15: Prescription for healing eyes (kollurium) 5. Ro col. x+1 ll. x+16-19: Prescription for healing eyes (kollurium). 6. Ro col. x+1 ll. x+19-21: Prescription for healing eyes (kollurium). 7. Ro col. x+2 ll. x+1-21: Fragmentary texts 8. Vo col. x+1 ll. x+1-5: Fragmentary text 9. Vo col. x+1 ll. x+6-18: Fragmentary text, perhaps for healing eye infection (ophthalmia). 10. Vo col. x+2 ll. x+1-11: Fragmentary texts 11. Vo col. x+2 ll. x+11-17: Prescription for healing eyes (kollurium).
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Language(s):	Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):	Coptic
Dialect:	Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	501 – 700
Date notes:	Grons 2025: p. 175; 301-500 (Richter 2014: p. 159)
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:	Published.
Image:

Form:	Sheet (?)
Material:	Papyrus

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 10.8

Width: 8.2

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	Richter 2014: p. 161.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:	Fragmentary; damage to all sides.
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.	4
Pages/Columns (notes):	Two columns each, recto and verso, 21 lines recto, 18 lines verso.
Hand:

Findspot:	TT 157, 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:
Collection History:	Found in backfill of tomb of Nebwenenef (TT 157) (Richter 2014: p.156-7).
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography

Editions:	★ Grons, Anne. Medizinische Rezepttexte in koptischer Sprache (C.Pharm.Copt.). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beiheft 56. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, p. 175-185, no. 5. Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Neue koptische medizinische Rezepte.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 141.2 (2014): 154-194, p. 156-164, no. 1, plates 1a-b.
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General:

Trismegistos ID:

383709

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae	SM: Supplementum Magicum	GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”	AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte	CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database	Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires	Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"	TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum	To Zodion:

Edit History:

KD (7/11/2018); MPS (2/10/2019); KD (23/6/2022); RBS (24/7/2026)

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[Editor names]. "KYP M673," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m673. Accessed on 27/10/2026
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