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KYPRIANOS M1790

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

P. Mon. Epiph. 600

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

Liturgical (hymns)

Contents:

Ro. ll. 1-19: Hymn on Mary and the Nativity.

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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. 551 – 650
Date notes:

Late sixth or early seventh century CE (Mihálykó 2019: 343); sixth or seventh century according to TM; 580-640 CE according to collection website (12/09/2022)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A25
Archive name: Monastery of Epiphanius
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/473397

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)

Material:

Ostracon (pottery)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 171 Width: 272 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (07/11/2022)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete.

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 (concave), 19 lines.

Hand:

Same hand as P. Mon. Epiph. 3, 7, 8, 15, 16, 19, 31, 32, 46, 47, 68, 400, 593, 598, 601, 603-607, perhaps that of a scribe named Moses (Winlock/Crum 1926: p. 155, 315).

Findspot:

Western Thebes: Monastery of Epiphanius, Cell A

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Western Thebes: Monastery of Epiphanius, Cell A

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Collection History:

Found during museum excavations in 1913-1914; acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1914 cf. collection Website (12/09/2022)

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 247
Collection website: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/473397

Notes/Discussion:

Was found with other manuscripts, including P.Mon. Epiph. 598, written in the same hand, on the sleeping mat in cell A (Winlock/Crum 1926: 316).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Winlock, Herbert E. and Walter E. Crum. The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes. Part II. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926 (repr. 1973), p. 132, 316, no. 600.


Translations:
General:

Mihálykó, Ágnes T.The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 114. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 343, no. 227.


Trismegistos ID:

61459

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

782

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

Imported from checklist of Ágnes T. Mihálykó by KD (11/11/2019); JS (12/9/2022); JS (07/11/2022); KD (21/12/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1790," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1790. Accessed on 22/08/2024

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