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KYPRIANOS M440

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

PGM Christian 16
St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum 5657
P. Ross. Georg. 1 23

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

Magical (applied ?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-28: Curse with judicial features against Theodosius.

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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:

TM (26/2/2019); Preisendanz 1974: p. 225

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

Published. New edition desirable.

Image: http://papyri.info/apis/hermitage.apis.21/images

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 16 Width: 8.8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Preisendanz 1974: p. 225.

Folding pattern:

2 vertical creases, multiple horizontal creases (?)

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 (→), 28 lines.

Hand:

Bad cursive writing with copticisms (PGM 1931, p. 205).

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

Collection History:

Acquired by Bock in Egypt in 1897.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 316
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Folded in antiquity (TM 28/9/2020)

Bibiliography
Editions:

Björc, Gudmund. Der Fluch des Christen Sabinus. Papyrus Upsaliensis 8. Upsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1938, p. 46, no. 24.

★ Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig–Berlin: Teubner, 1974, p. 225, no. 16.

Zetereli, Grigorij F. Papyri russischer und georgischer Sammlungen. Literarische Texte. Vol. 1. Tiflis: Universitätslithographie, 1925, no. 23.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 50-51, no. 27.


General:

http://papyri.info/apis/hermitage.apis.21


Trismegistos ID:

64513

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 16

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

27

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

971

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

35

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

MPS (26/2/2019); MPS (28/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M440," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m440. Accessed on 16/11/2024

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