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KYPRIANOS M436

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

PGM Christian 13a
P. Cair. Masp. II 67188 v
also known as Mertens-Pack 00348.230

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

Magical (formulary ?)
Literary (poetry)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro: Contract

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-5: Formulary for protection from all demons
3. Vo ll. 6-10: Poem on the Greek Games
4. Vo ll. 11-16: Ethopoeia of Apollo

See all texts in this manuscript.

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. 565 – 573
Date notes:

565 – 573 (Fournet 1999: p. 446). TM (8/2/2019).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A24
Archive name: Dioskoros Archive
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://bipab.aphrodito.info/images/grandes_images/P_Cair_Masp_II_67188_v_.jpg

Form:

Rotulus

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 49.6 Width: 28.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Preisendanz 1931: p. 202.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete with damage. In three fragments.

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 verso (↓), 16 lines. 1 column recto (→) (original use). Verso at 90 degrees to recto.

Hand:

Dioskoros of Aphrodito

Findspot:

Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), Egypt

(TM places ID: 237)
Place of purchase:

Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), Egypt

(TM places ID: 237)
Writingspot:

Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 237)
Present Location:

Cairo, Egyptian Museum

Collection History:

Discovered in Kom Ishgau between 1905 and 1907, brought by Gustave Lefebvre to the Egyptian Museum (MacCoull 1988: p. 3).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 73
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Partial parallel to Suppl.Mag. II 65 (see Jordan 2001 for full argument).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Fournet, Jean-Luc. Hellénisme dans l’Égypte du VIe siècle, La bibliothèque et l’oeuvre de Dioscore d’Aphrodité. MIFAO 115. Cairo: Institut francais d’archéologie orientale 1999 (P. Aphrod. Lit.), vol. 1, p. 446-447, no. IV 41 (lines 11-16)

★ Jordan. David R. “A Prayer Copied by Disokoros of Kome Aphrodites (PGM 13a).” Tyche 16 (2001): 87-90.

Heitsch, Ernst. Die griechischen Dichterfragmente der römischen Kaiserzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1959, XLII 27.

MacCoull, Leslie S. B. “P. Cair. Masp. II 67188 Verso 1-5: The Gnostica of Dioscorus of Aphrodito.” Tyche 2 (1987): 95-97.

★ Maspero, Jean. Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du musée du caire. Nos. 67125-67278. Papyrus grecs d’époque byzantine. Vol. 2. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1913, p. 169, no. 67188. [full transcription]

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig–Berlin: Teubner, 1931, p. 202, no. 13a.


Translations:

MacCoull, Leslie S. B. Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, p. 126-127 (vo ll. 6-10), p. 128-129 (vo ll. 11-16).

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 46-47, no. 22.


General:

Crönert, Wilhelm. “Reviewed of A Greek-Coptic Glossary by H. I. Bell and W. E. Crum,” Gnomon 2.11 (1926): p. 658-659.


Trismegistos ID:

65000
36696

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 13a

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic

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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

898

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

31

TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (7/2/2019); MPS (8/2/2019); MPS (28/9/2020); KD (28/9/2020); KD (1/2/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M436," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m436. Accessed on 11/09/2024

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