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KYPRIANOS M487

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

PGM LXVI
Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina 508 + Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE 60139

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro, col. 1, ll. 1-9 + col. 2, ll. 1-11: Applied separation spell to separate Philoxenos and Pelagios (curse)

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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:

Preisendanz (1931: p. 198); TM (29/5(20)

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

Published.

Image: http://ipap.csad.ox.ac.uk/Varia-bw/300dpi/Pap.Graec.Mag.II.66.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 125 Width: 225 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:

8 vertical, 4 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.

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

2 columns recto (→) and a drawing of men in between the columns. 9 lines column 1, 11 lines column 2. The lines in column 2 are closer than in column 1.

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:

Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Cairo, Egyptian Museum

Collection History:

2 fragments held in different locations. (TM (3/6/20)

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 903
Collection website: http://ipap.csad.ox.ac.uk/4DLink4/4DACTION/IPAPwebquery?vPub=Pap.Graec.Mag.&vVol=2&vNum=66

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2 (2nd ed). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 198, no. 66.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 296, no. 66.


General:

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 245, ViP 177.


Trismegistos ID:

64282

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

66

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

ST (29/5/2020); ST (3/6/2020); KD (10/6/2020); EL (29/7/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M487," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m487. Accessed on 16/06/2024

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