Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Heid. G 698c |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Medical (recipe) (?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-5 – Vo ll. 1-2: Fragmentary text (medical/healing or alchemical?) |
| 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. |
301 – 400 |
| Date notes: | Grons 2025: p. 149; TM (16/9/2022); Richter 2014: p. 164. |
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Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_g_698_c/0001/ |
| Form: | Sheet (?) |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 2.9 | Width: 5.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Grons 2025: p. 149. |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragment. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | One column survives on each of recto and verso. 5 lines on recto, 2 lines on verso. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
| Collection History: | Origin unknown (Richter 2014: p. 164). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
156 |
| Collection website: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_g_698_c/0001/ |
| Notes/Discussion: | Richter suggests it may have been a recipe for healing eye or teeth diseases based on the use of tragacanth (tragakantha). |
| 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. 149-152, no. 1. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
Reiter, Fabian. “Medizinische Rezepte auf einem Heidelberger Papyrus.” In Akten des 21. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses Berlin, 13.-19.8.1995, edited by Bärbel Kramer, Wolfgang Luppe, Herwig Maehler and Günter Poethke, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Beiheft 3, 809 [804-826]. Stuttgart & Leipzig B. G. Teubner, 1997. |
| Trismegistos ID: |
383713 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| 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 |
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| 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); MPS (16/9/2022); RBS (24/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M674," 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-m674. Accessed on 27/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.