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KYPRIANOS M957

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

Khartum, Sudan National Museum number unknown

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. 1-6: Short prayer for help containing names of the Three Hebrew Youths (applied amulet for healing/protection?)
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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. 801 – 1200
Date notes:

Welsby & Daniels (1991: p.34).
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: 16.6 Width: 19 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

From DBMNT (26/2/2021).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

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.
Hand:

Findspot:

Soba, Sudan

(TM places ID: 3466)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Soba, Sudan (?)

(TM places ID: 3466)
Present Location:

Khartum, Sudan National Museum
Collection History:

Found in excavation.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 965
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Jakobielski, Stefan. “The Inscriptions, Ostraca and Graffiti.” In: Soba, Archaeological Research at a Medieval Capital on the Blue Nile, Memoirs of the BIEA, edited by D. A. Welsby and C. M. Daniels. London: 1991, p. 278, no. 1.
Translations:
General:

Database of Medieval Nubian Texts (DBMNT) no. 1893 (http://www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl/)

Trismegistos ID:

370423

 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 (20/3/2019); KD (27/6/2019); ST (23/1/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M957," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m957. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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