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KYPRIANOS M842

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

PGM CXXIX
Berlin P. 21260

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

Original use:

Ro: Documentary text (II CE; unpublished).

Re-use:

Vo ll.1-7: Instructions for creation of amulet (healing/protection).

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. 201 – 300
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 163); GEMF

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

Published

Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_21260_V_001.jpg

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 5 Width: 8.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

SM II p. 163.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, broken on all sides except the bottom.

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):

Re-use one column verso; original use one column recto.

Hand:

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/04453/

Notes/Discussion:

Cedopal (http://cipl93.philo.ulg.ac.be/Cedopal/MP3/MertensPack.aspx?numnot=06054.000) says it comes from 5th/6th century Fustat, but this seems to be a reference to a different manuscript.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990-1992, p. 163-165, no. 81.

Ioannidou, Grace. Catalogue of Greek and Latin Literary Papyri in Berlin (P.Berol.inv. 21101—21299, 21911) (Mainz: Verlag Phillip von Zabern, 1996), no. 164.

Maltomini, Franco. “Due Papiri Magici Inediti.” Studi classici e orientali 31 (1981): 115-117.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Joachim Hengstl, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten XVIII. Wiesbaden, 1993, no. 13729.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 323, no. 81.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

69045
63979

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

129

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

81

GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 37 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

6054

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 (16/5/2019); KD (24/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M842," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m842. Accessed on 27/06/2024

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