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KYPRIANOS M716

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

Saqqara F.17.10 (SA.03/141)

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

Magical (applied ?)
Magical (formulary ?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-16: Unbinding charm, perhaps for healing a blocked nose.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:

see van der Vliet 2018: p. 147.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 901 – 1100
Date notes:

See Müller (2017).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Paper
Dimensions (cm): Height: 12.4 Width: 6.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Ziegler 2013: p. 21; Müller 2017: p. 130; van der Vliet 2018: p. 146
Folding pattern:

5 horizontal folds (?)
clearly folded, 3 horizontal and 1 vertical crease (Müller 2017: p. 130)
“several times widthwise” (van der Vliet 2018: p. 146)
State of preservation:

Complete, some damage; two vertical tears creating three fragments.
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 recto, 16 lines.
Hand:

Upright, informal, bilinear

Findspot:

Saqqara, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1344)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Saqqara, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1344)
Present Location:
Collection History:

Excavated in 2003 from shaft of secondary tomb (F17) which penetrated the mastaba of Akhet-hetep north of the ruins of the Monastery of Apa Jeremiah (van der Vliet 2018: p. 146).
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Notes/Discussion:

van der Vliet (2018) suggests that this is an applied text based on its folding, although it contains the generic name marker.
Perhaps intentionally cut or torn into three pieces.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Favrelle, Geneviève. “[Texte] Copte: F17.10.” In Les tombes hypogées de Basse Époque F7, F17, H, j1, Q, n1. Fouilles du Louvre a Saqqara II, edited by Christiane Ziegler. Paris: Peeters, 2013, vol. 1 18, 21, 460–462; vol. 2 pl. 49.

Müller, Matthias. “Review of C. Ziegler, ed., Les tombes hypogées de Basse Époque F7, F17, H, j1, Q, n1.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 103 (2017): 130–131.

★ van der Vliet, Jacques. “Charming a Clogged Nose: A Late Coptic Magical Spell from Saqqara.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 18 (2018): 145–166.

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael and Love, Edward O. D. Traditions in Transmission: The Medical and Magical Texts of a Fourth-Century Greek and Coptic Codex (Michigan Ms. 136) in Context. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022, p. 305-313.
Translations:
General:

van der Vliet, Jacques. “Tradition and Innovation: Writing Magic in Christian Egypt,” in Rituals in Early Christianity: New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation, edited by Nienke M. Vos and Albert C. Geljon. Leiden: Brill, 2020, p. 262-263.

Trismegistos ID:

874260

 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 (10/12/2018); MPS (29/5/2019); MPS (18/8/2020); KD (21/3/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M716," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m716. Accessed on 23/12/2025

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