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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
C. Pharm. Copt. 15

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 – 750
Date notes:

Grons 2025: p. 245.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A25
Archive name: Monastery of Epiphanius
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

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

No dimensions given in Crum & White (1926) nor Grons (2025).
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):

1 column, 16 lines.
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:

★ Grons, Anne. Medizinische Rezepttexte in koptischer Sprache (C.Pharm.Copt.). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beiheft 56. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, p. 245-247, no 15.

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); RBS (24/7/2026)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M693," 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-m693. Accessed on 27/10/2026
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