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KYPRIANOS M746

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

P. Oxy. LXXVI 5073
P. Oxy. 76 5073
Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms 25 3B 58/E(c)

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

Magical (applied)
Biblical (New Testament, gospel)
Contents:

1. Ro. ll. 1-5: Incipit of Gospel of Mark (1.1-2).
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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. 251 – 350
Date notes:

Late third or fourth century (Smith/Bernhard 2011: p. 19). 250-400 CE accordint to Col. website.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_LXXVI_5073_Mark_I_1-2_Amulet/21180895

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 4.5 Width: 25.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Smith/Bernhard 2011: p. 19.
Folding pattern:

No obvious creases.
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 recto, 5 lines.
Hand:

Sloping

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms
Collection History:

Excavated in situ.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 264
Collection website: https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_LXXVI_5073_Mark_I_1-2_Amulet/21180895

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Blumell, Lincoln H., and Thomas A. Wayment. Christian Oxyrynchus. Texts, Documents, and Sources. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2015, no. 92.

Jones, Brice C. New Testament Texts on Greek amulets from Late Antiquity. London: T&T Clark, 2016, p. 130-134, no. 16.

Smith, Geoffrey S., and Andrew E. Bernhard. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 76. London: The Egypt Exploration Society, 2011, p. 19-23, no. 5073.
Translations:
General:

Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Microtheologies behind the Biblical Amulets.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 49 (2019): p. 264-267.

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptual Incipts on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt. Text, Typology and Theory, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2014, pp. 98-99, no. 22.

Wasserman, Tommy. “P78 (P. Oxy. XXXIV 2684): The Epistle of Jude on an Amulet?” In New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their World, edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp. 23-25.

Trismegistos ID:

140277

 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:

ST (30/12/2020); SG (4/8/2025)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M746," 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-m746. Accessed on 05/08/2026
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