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KYPRIANOS M152

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

PGM II + PGM VI
P.Berl. Inv. 5026 + P. Lond. 47
Anastasi 1075 (1857) + Anastasy 3 + 5 (1839)

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

Magical (formulary)
Documentary (receipt ?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-183: Divination procedure/ritual of apparition calling upon sun god with drawing.

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-3: Receipt mentioning oil and alkanet (?).
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. 151 – 250
Date notes:

Late second to early third century according to GEMF dating; TM (14/9/2020): 200-350; Late 3rd century (Wessely 1888; p. 149).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A1
Archive name: Theban Magical Library
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_05026_R_001.jpg

Form:

Roll
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 34 Width: 116 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

PGM II: 33 (H) x 94 (W); PGM VI: 34 (H) x 22 (W) (Chronopoulou 2017: p. 22).
Folding pattern:

Signs of rolling. Smaller fragment; PGM VI= shows signs of 3 vertical creases, 1 horizontal crease.
State of preservation:

Complete (?), 5 fragments.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

5
Pages/Columns (notes):

5 columns recto (→). 1 column verso (↓) (documentary re-use). Column widths of 23.3 (col. 2). Verso at ninety degrees to recto. 23.5 (col. 3), 17.6 (col. 4), 14.5 (col. 5) (measurements KD from photograph, 7/6/2020). Column letters 35-40 (col. 1), 56-60 (cols. 2, 3), 35-40 (cols. 4, 5) (GEMF).
Hand:

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 576)
Place of purchase:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 576)
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 576)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
London, British Library
Collection History:

Purchased by Jean d’Anastasy, consul-general of Sweden and Norway in Thebes prior to 1838. The London portion was sold to the British Museum on the 30th October 1839 (sale catalogue British Museum, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan: AES Ar.24); the Berlin portion was sold to the Königliche Museen zu Berlin in 1857 as part of a lot prepared in 1846 (sale catalogue is Lenormant 1857) (see Dosoo 2016). For join, see Chronopolou 2017.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40.192
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/01591/

Notes/Discussion:

Website in col. website is for the larger Berlin part; for the London part see:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002104465

Bibiliography
Editions:

Abel, Eugenius. Orphica: Accedunt Procli Hymni, Hymni Magici, Hymnus in Isim alique eiusmodi carmina (Leipzig: G. Freytag, 1885), p. 287-288.

Blanco Cesteros, Miriam. Edición y comentario de los himnos Apolo, Helio y el Dias Supremo de los papiros magicos griegos, PhD Thesis, University of Valladolid (2016).

Bortolani, Ljuba Merlina. Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt: A Study of Greek and Egyptian Traditions of Divinity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 169-201, Hymns 6, 7 and 8.

Chronopoulou, Eleni. Edition of the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) I and VI+II: Introduction, text and commentary. PhD Thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d’Humanitats, 2017. (https://repositori.upf.edu/handle/10230/33761?locale-attribute=en)

Dilthey, Karl. “Über die von Miller herausgegebenen griechischen Hymnen”, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 27 (1872): 375-419.

Eitrem, Samson. Zu den Berliner Zauberpapyri. Kristiania: J. Dybwad, 1923, 12-15.

Heitsch, Ernst. Die griechischen Dichterfragmente der römischen Kaiserzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1959, 215-236.

Herrero Valdes, Flor. Edición, Traducción y comentario de los Himnos Magicos Griegos. PhD Thesis, University of Malaga (2016).

Kenyon, Frederik G. Greek Papyri in the British Museum I. London: British Museum, 1893, p. 81-83, no. 47 [PGM VI].

Mantziou, M. Ο ΜΑΓΙΚΟΣ ΥΜΝΟΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΟΝ ΗΛΙΟ (PGM II, ΥΜΝΟΙ 11 = P II 81–102, 107–108, 132–140, 163–166), in SUNDEIPNON, Mélange in hon. Dimitrios Loukatos. Ioannina, 1988, p. 117–156.

Merkelbach, Reinhold, and Totti, Maria. Abrasax. Ausgewählte Papyri religiösen und magischen Inhalts. Vol. I:Gebete (Sonderreihe Papyrologica Coloniensia 17). Opladen: Wescdc. Verl., 1990, p. 35-64.

Monaca, Mariangela. “Una «Sibilla» nei Papiri Magici? Per una rilettura di PGM VI.” MHNH 11 (2011): 360-370.

Monte, Anna. “Considerazioni su PGM II 1–12.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 57 (2011): 55–61.

Parthey, Gustav. Zwei Griechische Zauberpapyri des Berliner Museums. Berlin: Dümmler, 1866, p. 109-149.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 1. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 18-30, 198-200, nos. 2, 6.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Albert Henrichs. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1973–1974, p. 244-246, 248, hymns 9, 10, 11, 13, 14.

Riesenfeld, Harald. “Remarques sur les hymnes magiques.” Eranos Rudbergianus (=Eranos 44) (1946): 153-160.

Tissi, Lucia Maddalena. “Edizione critica, traduzione e commento all’inno magico 11 Pr. (PGM II 81–101).” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 60 (2014): 66–92.

Wessely, Carl. “Griechische Zauberpapyrus von Paris und London.” Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 36 (1888): 9–10, 149-150.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 12-18, 110-112, nos. 2, 6.

Martin, Michel. Les papyrus grecs magiques. Éditions Manuscrit-Université, 2002, no. II.

Calvo Martínez, José Luis, and Dolores Sánchez Romero. Textos de Magia en Papiros Griegos. Biblioteca Clásica Gredos. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1987, p. 68-77, 202-203, nos. 2, 6.
General:

Bortolani, Ljuba Merlina. “We Are Such Stuff as Dream Oracles Are Made on: Greek and Egyptian Traditions and Divine Personas in the Dream Divination Spells of the Magical Papyri.” In Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices, edited by Ljuba Merlina Bortolani, William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 32. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 149–170.

Brashear, William M. “The Greek Magical Papyri: An Introduction and Survey: Annotated Bibliography (1928–1994).” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.18.5, edited by Wolfgang Haase. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1995, 3509-3511.

Buresch, Karl. Apollon Klarios, Untersuchungen zum Orakelwesen des späteren Altertums (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1889), p. 42-43.

Chronopolou, Eleni. “PGM VI : A Lost Part of PGM II.” Symbolae Osloenses 91.1 (2017): 1-8.

Chronopolou, Eleni. “The authorship of PGM VI (P.Lond. I 47) + II (P.Berol. inv. 5026),” in Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Papyrology, Barcelona 2016.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, edited by Alberto Nodar & Sofía Torallas Tova (Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2019): 325-332.

Dosoo, Korshi. “A History of the Theban Magical Library.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (2016): 251-274.

García Molinos, Alejandro. La adivinación en los papiros mágicos griegos. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2017, p. 134-135.

Hopfner, Theodor. Griechisch-ägyptischer Offenbarungszauber. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hackert, 1974-1990, vol. 1, §877, vol. II, §191–200.

Lenormant, François. Catalogue d’une collection d’antiquités égyptiennes. Paris: Maulde et Renou, 1857.

Monte, Anna. “Un manuale di magia greco a Berlino : il Papyrus Berolinensis Inv. 5026,” in Écrire la magie dans l’Antiquité – Scrivere la magia nell’Antichità: Proceedings of the International Workshop (Liège, October 13–15, 2011) (Papyrologica Leodiensia 5), edited by Magali de Haro Sanchez (Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2015): 35–40.

Nagel, Svenja. “Illuminating Encounters: Reflections on Cultural Plurality in Lamp Divination Rituals.” In Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, ed. Ljuba Merlina Bortolani, William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017 124-148.

Riess, Ernst. “Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Greek Magical Papyri.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 26 (1941): 51–52.

Schmidt, Karl F W.. Review of Preisendanz, PGM vol. I, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen 193 (1931), 445–448.

Suárez de la Torre, Emilio. “La formación del mago: el testimonio de los papiros mágicos del Egipto grecoromano.” In Magikè téchne: Formación y consideración social del mago en el Mundo Antiguo, edited by Emilio Suárez de la Torre, Miriam Blanco, Eleni Chronopoulou, and Isabel Canzobre. Madrid, Dykinson, 2017: 124-125.

Totti, Maria. 1988, “Καρποϰράτηϲ ἀϲτρόμαντιϲ und die λυχνομαντεία”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 73 (1988): 297-301.

Trismegistos ID:

88397
60673

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

2, 6

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 30 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

0568
1867
1863
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: 8
Edit History:

KD; KD (20/7/2020); MPS (14/9/2020); KD (18/9/2020); ST (19/9/2020); KD (21/9/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M152," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m152. Accessed on 07/12/2025

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