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KYPRIANOS M694

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

BM EA 27422
O. Brit. Mus. Copt. I plate 49
BM Registration Number 1861,0618.11
O.Brit.Mus.Copt. I 49:1

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

Medical (recipes)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-8: Recipe for healing eye issues (?)
2. Ro ll. 9-17: Recipe for a plaster
3. Ro ll. 18-29: Recipe for a plaster
4. Vo ll. 1-10: Unclear recipe
5. Vo ll. 11-19: Recipe for a plaster
6. Vo ll. 20-29: Unclear recipe
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. 601 – 800
Date notes:

Richter 2014: p. 189.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. New edition in progress by Anne Grons.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)
Material:

Ostracon (limestone)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 21.9 Width: 14.8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

From collection website (15/11/2018)
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, some damage.
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 each on recto and verso. 29 lines on each side.
Hand:

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

London, British Museum
Collection History:

Acquired 1861 from John Gadsby (col. website 15/11/2018).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 193
Collection website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA27422

Notes/Discussion:

Perhaps mentions scorpion sting. Recipes separated by dividing lines.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Hall, Henry R. (ed.). Coptic and Greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraka, Stelae, etc. in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1905, p. 64-66 plate 49.
Translations:

Till, W.C. Die Arzneikunde der Kopten. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1951, p. 129 (German).
General:

Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Neue koptische medizinische Rezepte.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 141.2 (2014): p. 189.

Trismegistos ID:

111820

 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); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (19/9/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M694," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m694. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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