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KYPRIANOS M940

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

Pennsylvania Museum E 16448+16305

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

Magical (applied ?)

Contents:

1. Ro: Amulet (?) including an image of an ouroboros.

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Language(s):

Greek (?)
Egyptian (Coptic) (?)

Script(s):

Greek (?)
Coptic (?)

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. –
Date notes:
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Unpublished

Image: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object_images.php?irn=228223#image1

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete. Damaged at the bottom, but apparently preserved at the top, right, and left.

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.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 280
Collection website: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/228223

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID: 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:

EL (19/3/2019); KD (12/11/2019); MPS (14/2/2020); MPS (19/8/2020); KD (11/6/2023)


How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M940," 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-m940. Accessed on 20/10/2026
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