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KYPRIANOS M1121

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Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie P. G 2260

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Biblical (Psalm)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-3: Psalm LXX 36.25-26; perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection
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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. 401 – 600
Date notes:

Schmelz (1997: p. 61); de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 214).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 4 Width: 2.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Schmelz (1997: p. 62); de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 215).
Folding pattern:

2 horizontal creases.
State of preservation:

Damaged; broken away at all sites.
Could be a fragment sheet of a codex.
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 (↓), 3 surviving lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 156
Collection website: https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/papyri/view/p_g_2260/

Notes/Discussion:

Schmelz (1997: p. 62) suggests that the text may be written on the vertical fibres because it is part of a codex, but in this case we would expect text on the verso, and writing on the vertical fibres was common by the fifth century.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Schmelz, Georg. “Septuaginta-Fragmente aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 116 (1997): 62-63.
Translations:
General:

Rahlfs, Alfred, et al. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 147-148, no. 2203.

Trismegistos ID:

62115

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae 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)"

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 TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (25/10/2019); ST (15/7/2021); KD (7/10/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1121," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1121. Accessed on 17/05/2024

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