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KYPRIANOS M1208

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

Chester Beatty Library Pap 1011
CBL Pap 1011

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

Magical (applied ?)
Magical (formulary ?)

Contents:

1. Ro block 1 ll. 1-3 + block 2 ll. 4-6 + block 3 ll. 7-10 + block 4 ll. 11-13 + drawing: Complex tableau containing an ouroboros surrounding a parchment roll with a vowel square surmounted by a bird, several chi-rhos, a bird, and a tabula ansata; perhaps an amulet or a model for an 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. 301 – 400
Date notes:

Trnka-Amrhein (2020: p. 91).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/Pap_1011/1/LOG_0000/

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 26.6 Width: 17.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Trnka-Amrhein (2020: p. 87).

Folding pattern:

8 horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Complete with significant damage to right part of sheet.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

4

Pages/Columns (notes):

4 text blocks and an inscribed drawing on the recto (↓), 13 lines + the lines inside of the drawing.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 112
Collection website: https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/Pap_1011/1/LOG_0000/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Trnka-Amrhein, Yvona K. “The Seal of the Living God: A Christian Amulet in the Chester Beatty Library” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 214 (2020): 87-108.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

874140

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 (25/9/2019); ST (31/8/2021); KD (21/10/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1208," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1208. Accessed on 08/09/2024

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