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KYPRIANOS M738

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

Faras I Greek 131
Faras IV 131

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

Magical (applied ?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-5: Names of Holy Trinity, names of angels and pentagram, perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 1200
Date notes:

TM (11/6/2019); 301-1000: TM (30/12/2020).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

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

No published dimensions.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Damaged.
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, 5 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Pachora (Faras), Sudan

(TM places ID: 3170)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Pachora (Faras), Sudan

(TM places ID: 3170)
Present Location:
Collection History:

Found in situ.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website: http://www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Griffith, Francis Llewellyn. “Oxford Excavations in Nubia.” University of Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 13 (1926): 86, no. 20, fig. 2.

★ Kubińska, Jadwiga. Faras IV. Inscriptions grecques chrétiennes. Warsaw: Éditions scientifiques de Pologne, 1974, p. 181, no. 131.
Translations:
General:

DBMT no. 1561 (http://www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl)

Trismegistos ID:

102638

 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 (20/2/2019); MPS (11/6/2019); ST (30/12/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M738," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m738. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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