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KYPRIANOS M697

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

Berlin P. 4984
BKU 1 27
P. Berol. 4984
C. Pharm. Copt. 12

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

Medical (recipes(s))
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-5: Fragmentary prescription (healing)
2. Ro ll. 6 – Vo l. 4: Fragmentary prescription (healing)
3. Vo ll. 5-10: Fragmentary prescription (healing)
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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 – 800
Date notes:

Grons 2025: p. 233; Richetr 2014: p. 189.
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)
Material:

Ostracon (limestone)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 5.5 Width: 10.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Erman (1904): p. 30.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary.
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, recto and verso. 10 lines on each side.
Hand:

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Purchased in 1889 in Thebes (Erman 1904: p. 30).
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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. 233-237, no. 12, plates 11a-b.

Erman, Adolf. Aegyptische Urkunden aus dem Koeniglichen Museen zu Berlin: Koptische Urkunden. Vol. 1. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1904, (=BKU I), p. 30, n. 27.
Translations:

Till, W.C. Die Arzneikunde der Kopten. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1951, p. 113, text BKU 13-15.
General:

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

Trismegistos ID:

704843

 		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 (19/11/2018); MPS (17/5/2019); MPS (11/10/2019); MPS (19/9/2022); RBS (24/7/2026)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M697," 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-m697. Accessed on 27/10/2026
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