KYP T-1480

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KYPRIANOS T1480

Manuscript:	M171
Sigla:	PCM 1 11 PCM I 11 Leiden Anastasi 9 Leiden Anastasy 9 P. Leiden I 385 AMS 9 Anastasy 9 (1828)
Text no. Position of the text within the manuscript.	6
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date:	551 – 800

Text position:	p. 28 ll. 22-27
Type of text:	Healing/protection (magical, formulary)

Original title:	ⲛⲁⲓ̈ ⲛⲉ ⲛⲣⲁⲛ ⲙⲡⲥⲁϣ̅ϥ ⲛϣⲏⲣⲉϣⲏⲙ ⲛ̅ⲛ̅ⲉⲫⲉⲥⲟⲥ
Original title (translated):	These are the name of the seven children of Ephesus
Conventional title:	Names of 7 Sleepers of Ephesus

Language:	Egyptian (Coptic)
Dialect:	Sahidic
Script:	Coptic
Image:	https://hdl.handle.net/21.12126/21319

Text:

Translation:

p. 28 (14v)
→
—— · · —— · · —— · · ——
22. ⲛⲁⲓ̅ ⲛⲉ ⲛⲣⲁⲛ ⲙⲡⲥⲁϣ̅ϥ
23. ⲛϣⲏⲣⲉ ϣⲏⲙ ⲛ̅ⲛⲉⲙⲫⲉⲥⲟⲥ
—— · · —— · · —— · · ——
24. ⲁⲣⲭⲓ̈ⲗⲗⲓ̈ⲧⲟⲥ · ⲇⲓ̈ⲟⲙⲏⲧⲟⲥ ·
25. ⲁⲗⲗⲁⲧⲓ̣ⲟⲥ · ⲡⲣⲟⲃⲁⲧⲓⲟⲥ ·
26. ⲥⲧⲉⲫⲁⲛⲟⲥ · ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲟⲥ :
27. ⲥⲁⲃⲃⲁⲧⲓ̈ⲟⲥ : — — —
—— · · —— · · —— · · ——
· · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
—— · · —— · · —— · · ——

[p. 28 l. 23] These are the names of the seven [24] children of Ephesus: [25] Archillides, Diomedes, [26] Allatios, Probatios, [27] Stephanos, Cyriacus, [28] Sabbatios.

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Apparatus:

23. ⲛ̅ⲛⲉⲙⲫⲉⲥⲟⲥ i.e. Sahidic ⲛ̅-ⲉⲫⲉⲥⲟⲥ : ⲛ̅ⲛⲉⲫⲉⲥⲟⲥ Pleyte/Boeser
24. ⲁⲣⲭⲓ̈ⲗⲗⲓ̈ⲧⲟⲥ enlarged capital ⲁ in ekthesis

Notes:

22–27. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus are a group of third-century Christians said to have been put into a miraculous sleep by God to save them from the persecution of Decius (249–251 CE), awakening nearly two hundred years later during the reign of Theodosius II (401–450 CE); they testify before the emperor before passing away and having a church built over the cave in which they slept. The earliest attestations of the legend are found in the Syriac writings of Jacob of Sarug (ca. 450–521 CE), dependent upon an older, likely Greek, source (Honigmann 1953: 125–168; van der Horst 2015). These names here were probably intended to be copied onto an amulet to protect the wearer or the place; cf. the walls of the eighth-century anchorite’s grotto in Pachora, Nubia, whose walls are decorated with several of the texts included in this manuscript, including the names of the Sleepers of Ephesus (see Griffith 1927: no. 29; Sanzo 2014: 77–78: no. 1). Compare the different tradition of the names of the Sleepers alluded to in PCM I 21 p. 9 (KYP T229) ll. 24–25.

Bibliography:

Dosoo, Korshi & Preininger, Markéta. Papyri Copticae Magicae. Coptic Magical Text, Volume 1. Formularies, Archiv für Papyrusforschung Beihefte, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, p. 166–167.

Griffith, Francis L. “Oxford Excavations in Nubia–continued.” University of Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 14 (1927): 57–116.

Honigmann, Ernest. Patristic Studies. Studi e testi / Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 173. Vatican: Biblioteca Apostoliza Vaticana, 1953.

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, no. 64 A, pp. 221.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 322, no. 134.

Pleyte, Willem, and Pieter A. A. Boeser. Manuscrits coptes du Musée d’Antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leide. Leiden: E. T. Brill, 1897, p. 441-479, no. 38.

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory. Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 84. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.

van der Horst, Pieter W. “Pious Long-Sleepers in Greek, Jewish, and Christian Antiquity.” In Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation from Second Temple Literature through Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 22–24 February, 2011, edited by Menahem Kister, Hillel Newman, Michael Segal, and Ruth Clements, 93–111. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 13. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

Editor:

EL’s edition from transcript in Pleyte and Boeser (3/1/20; 16/4/20); MPS and KD edition (9/6/2022); updated to PCM version by SG + KD (22/7/2026); JS (9/1/2023)

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