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KYPRIANOS M931

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Leiden National Museum of Antiquities AH. 157A (a-b)

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Documentary (school text) (?)
Magical (applied) (?)
Documentary (letter)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Tablet a side A text a ll. 1-7: Bous formula with parts of Psalm LXX 90 (applied amulet for protection? ).

Re-use:

2. Tablet a side A text b l. 1: Greek text (unclear)
3. Tablet a side A text c ll. 1-2: Part of Coptic letter
4. Tablet a side A text d: Remains of two lines
5. Tablet a side A text e: Tachygraphic signs
6. Tablet a side B text f: Coptic Letter
7. Tablet a side B text g: Greek epistolary formula
8. Tablet a side B text h: Part of Coptic letter
9. Tablet b ll. 1-10: Coptic letter
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Greek
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

TM (17/8/2020)
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

Delattre & Worp (2012: p. 366))
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Tablet
Material:

Wood (acacia)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 12.3 Width: 36.5 Depth: .7
Dimensions (notes):

Part a: 12 (H) x 36.5 (W) x 0.7 (D).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, text partially effaced.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

3
Pages/Columns (notes):

Formed a small codex made of two small wooden boards.
Hand:

7 hands (Delattre and Worp 2012)

Findspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities
Collection History:

Acquired from Jean d’Anastasy as part of purchase in 1828 (private communication Daniel Soliman 21/10/2020).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 178
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Delattre, Alain, and Klaas A. Worp. “Trois tablettes de bois du Musée de Leyde.” Chronique d‘Égypte 87.174 (2012): p. 363-371, no. 2-3.

Pleyte, Willem, and Pieter A. A. Boeser. Catalogue Leyde, Antiquités coptes. Leiden: Brill, 1900, p. 31-32.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

131613
131614

 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 (12/3/2019); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (14/10/2019); MPS (17/10/2019); MPS (17/8/2020); MPS (19/8/2020); MPS (25/3/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M931," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m931. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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