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KYPRIANOS M831

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PGM CX
St Louis, Washington University 181 + 221

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

Astrological (handbook)
Magical (formulary) (?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll.1-12: Instructions for divination using astrological chart, suggestion of divine revelation.

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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. 101 – 200
Date notes:

GEMF dating (11/7/2019). II-III CE (Zola 1988: 175).

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/files/original/e1497cdad98a5c851db864dcdf288162.jpg

Form:

Roll (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 14.5 Width: 10.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Maresch and Packmann 1990: p. 40.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, 2 fragments. Top and left margin of column preserved.

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 surviving recto (→), 12 surviving 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:

St Louis, Washington University

Collection History:

Acquired as part of subscription to Egypt Exploration Society, from region of Oxyrhynchus (col. website 29/9/2020).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 315
Collection website: http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/papyri-collection/item/8050

Notes/Discussion:

Column delineated by thick red horizontal and vertical frame visible at top and left.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Maresch, Klaus and Zola M. Packman. Papyri from the Washington University Collection, St. Louis, Missouri, Part II. Opladen: Springer, 1990, p. 40-46, no. 73.

Packman, Zola M. “Instructions for the Use of Planet Markers on a Horoscope Board,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 74 (1988): 85-95.

Packman, Zola M. “Three Magical Texts from the Washington University Collection,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 13.4 (1976): p. 175-177, no. 1.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 312, no. 110.


General:

West, Stephanie. “Astrologoumena,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 77 (1989): 30-32.


Trismegistos ID:

63925

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

110

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 13 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

2054.2

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 (15/5/2019); KD (29/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M831," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m831. Accessed on 30/06/2024

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