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KYPRIANOS M693

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

O. Mon. Epiph. 575
P. Mon. Epiph. 575
Cairo, Coptic Museum JdE 44674.130

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

Medical (recipe)

Contents:

1. Ro ll.1-16: Recipe for healing a sick liver.

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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. 601 – 700
Date notes:

Date from TM (15/11/2018)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A25
Archive name: Monastery of Epiphanius
State of edition:

Published; new edition in progress by Anne Grons.

Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)

Material:

Ostracon (pottery)

Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

No dimensions given in Crum & White (1926).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete (?).

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):

2 columns (?), 8 lines in each column, 16 lines in total.

Hand:

Findspot:

Monastery of Epiphanius, Thebes West, Egypt

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

Monastery of Epiphanius, Thebes West, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

Cairo, Coptic Museum

Collection History:

Excavated by Metropolitan Museum team in 1911-12 and 1913-14 (Crum & White 1926: p.5).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 72
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter Ewing and White, H.G. Evelyn (eds.). The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes, Part II. New York: Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926, p. 117 and p. 298, no. 575.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

87111

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 (15/11/2018); MPS (13/5/2019) MPS (16/9/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M693," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m693. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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