KYP T-6890

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KYPRIANOS T6890

Manuscript:	M127
Sigla:	PCM 1 20 PCM I 20 P. Donadoni
Text no. Position of the text within the manuscript.	2
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date:	701 – 900

Text position:	Vo l. 1
Type of text:	Unclear

Original title:
Original title (translated):
Conventional title:	Name

Language:	Egyptian (Coptic) (?)
Dialect:
Script:	Coptic (?)
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Text:	Translation:
back (→) 1. ⲥⲟⲫⲓⲁ	Sophia

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1. ⲥⲟⲫⲓⲁ : “Sophia” Donadoni understood this as a description (“indicazione definitoria”) of the content of the text of the front, presumably the Greek word “wisdom” (σοφία), but it seems more likely that we have here the cognate personal name; this may be an indication that the formulary was later re-used as an applied text targeting a woman named Sophia.

Bibliography:

Donadoni, Sergio. “Un incantesimo amatorio copto.” Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, scienze morali, storiche e filologiche no. 100 (1965–1966): 285–292 (transcription, translation, image).

Martín Hernández, Raquel, and Sofía Torallas Tovar. “‘You Who Impose Sleep Upon Abimelech for Seventy-Two Years’: An Egyptian Spell against Insomnia.” In Contesti magici/Contextos mágicos, edited by Marina Piramonte and Francisco Marco Simón. Rome: De Luca Editori d’Arte, p. 309-312.

Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: I testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, II.18.5, 3685–3730. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 3714-3715, no. 20.

van der Vliet, Jacques. “Christian Spells and Manuals from Egypt”. In Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic, edited by David Frankfurter. Leiden : Brill, 2019, p. 344.

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Team (2023)

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[Editor names]. "KYP T6890: Name," 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/text/kyp-t-6890. Accessed on 09/10/2026
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