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KYPRIANOS M755

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

PGM XVIIIa
Berlin P. no number

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

Magical (applied ?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-4: Applied amulet invoking the Lord Sabaoth for healing/protection from disease, against headache
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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:
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: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

No dimensions recorded.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete (?). Not 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 recto, 4 lines.
Hand:

Cursive (BGU III p. 279).

Findspot:

Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina), Egypt

(TM places ID: 801)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 801)
Present Location:

[lost]
Collection History:

Papyrus was destroyedby burning in 1899. Previously Berlin, Staatliche Museen.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/00229/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 140, no. 18a.

Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” Patrologia orientalis 18.3 (1924): p. 408.

Wilcken, Ulrich, in Ägyptische Urkunden aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Griechische Urkunden. Vol. 3. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1903, p. 279, no. 955.

Wilcken, Ulrich. “Heidnisches und Christliches aus Ägypten.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 1 (1901): p. 427.

Leclercq, Henri. In Dictionnaire de l’Archéologie chrétienne et de Liturgie. Vol. 1.2., edited by Fernand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq, Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané, 1937, col. 1385, 144 -145.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 255 no. PGM 18a.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

64364

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

18a

 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

6030
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires

721

 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 (24/9/2020); JS (03/11/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M755," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m755. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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