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KYPRIANOS M297

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

Cairo JdE 49547

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-41: Invocation to bless chalice.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic with Fayumic features
Language/dialect notes:

See Girard 1927: p. 62.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 801 – 1100
Date notes:

TM (9/1/2019)
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

Ostracon (pottery)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 40 Width: 24 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Girard 1927: p. 62.
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, 41 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Mazura, Egypt

(TM places ID: 3673)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Mazura, Egypt

(TM places ID: 3673)
Present Location:

Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Collection History:

Discovered by the Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte in Mazura (Girard 1927: p. 62).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 73
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Girard, Louis Saint-Paul. “Un fragment de liturgie magique copte sur ostrakon.” Annales du Service des antiquités de l’Égypte 27 (1927): 62–68 (transliteration and translation).
Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 101–104, no. 31.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 228-230, no. 107.

Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: I testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, II.18.5. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, 3685–3730, p. 3711–3712, no. 15.
General:

Camplani, Alberto. “‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani’. Pluralità dei linguiaggi religiosi e loro rielaborazione rituale in alcune preghiere magihche copte,” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 76.1 (2010): p. 146.

Trismegistos ID:

102068

 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

113
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

41

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

2.31

 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:

MPS (9/1/2019); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (30/8/2019); KD (28/11/2019)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M297," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m297. Accessed on 08/09/2024

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