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KYPRIANOS M760

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

PGM XXIVa
Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE 47411
P. Oxy. VI 886

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. 1-25: Sortition oracle of Isis and Hermes
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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. 201 – 400
Date notes:

GEMF dating (11/7/2019); 3rd century (Grenfell/Hunt 1908: p. 200).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 21.3 Width: 12.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Grenfell/Hunt 1908: p. 200.
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 (→), 25 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Collection History:

Excavated in Oxyrhynchus by Egypt Exploration Society.
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:

Grenfell, Bernard P., and Athur S. Hunt. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 6. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1908, p. 200-201, no. 886.

Jordan, David R. “Two Papyri with Formulae for Divination.” In Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World, edited by Paul Mirecki and Marvin Meyer. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world 141. Leiden: Brill, 2002. p. 25-28, no. 1

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 151, no. 24a.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 264, no. PGM 24 a.
General:

Quack, Joachim F. “Ein demotisch und altkoptisch überliefertes Losorakel”, in The Carlsberg Papyri 11. Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond, edited by Joachim F. Quack and K. Ryholt. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2019, p. 338-339.

Trismegistos ID:

64001

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

24a

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 52 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 (9/3/2019); MPS (14/9/2020); KD (8/11/2021); KD (19/10/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M760," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m760. Accessed on 27/06/2024

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