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KYPRIANOS M748

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

PGM IX
London, British Library Pap 123

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. 1-13 and Vo (image): Curse for subjection and silencing; includes illustration.

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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:

GEMF (11/7/2019). 301-500 (Kenyon 1893: p. 120); Preisendanz (1974: p. 50).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A7
Archive name: Hermonthis Archive
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_123&index=31

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 9.5 Width: 27.9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (3/4/2019). Folded size approximately 14 (W) x 2.8 (H) cm.

Folding pattern:

3 horizontal creases, 1 vertical crease.

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):

1 column each, recto (↓) and verso (→); 13 lines recto, verso contains only image. Recto is written transversa charta.

Hand:

Findspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Writingspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

London, British Library

Collection History:

Acquired 1888; source unclear, acquired by Budge from an Egyptian through Messrs. Bywater, Tanqueray & Co, 12 May 1888 as part of purchase including other Hermonthis Archive texts (British Library, communication 27/3/2019).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 192
Collection website: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002104503

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Kenyon, Frederick G. Greek Papyri in the British Museum I. London: British Museum 1893, p. 120-121, no. 123.

★ Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 50-51, no. IX & 266, hymn 30.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 148-149, no. IX.


General:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893. London: British Museum 1894, p. 390.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Vol. I. Wien, Holzhausen, 1992, no. 195.


Trismegistos ID:

64577

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

9

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 73 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); KD (3/4/2019); MPS (25/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M748," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m748. Accessed on 26/04/2024

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