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KYPRIANOS M972

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

PGM O 4

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. 1-9: Lord’s Prayer (Mt 9,9-13)
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 301 – 400
Date notes:

TM (30/9/2020); late 4th century (Knopf 1901: p. 231).
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: 13.5 Width: 12 Depth: 2
Dimensions (notes):

The complete object could have been 22.5 x 18.5 cm (Knopf 1901: p. 228; Knopf 1900: p. 313).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary; left and top missing.
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, 9 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Megara, Greece

(TM places ID: 1331)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Megara, Greece (?)

(TM places ID: 1331)
Present Location:

Athens, National Museum 12227
Collection History:

Found by a boy in Megara and sold. The seller, after learning the nature of the object, then donated it to the National Museum in Athens (Knopf 1900: p. 313).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 17
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

A phylactery according to Knopf (1901).
The writing was scratched into wet clay and burnt – meaning that the object was intended to as an amulet with the Lord’s Prayer from its beginning (Knopf 1900: p. 313).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Knopf, Rudolf. “Eine Thonscherbe mit dem Texte des Vaterunser.” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 25. Athens, 1900: p. 313-324

Knopf, Rudolf. “Eine Thonscherbe mit dem Texte des Vaterunsers.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 2 (1901): p. 228-233.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 235, no. O5.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

64372

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

O 4

 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

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 Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (30/9/2020); MPS (1/10/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M972," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m972. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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