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KYPRIANOS M157

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

PGM VIII
P. Lond. 122

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.1-63: Binding love spell of Astrapsoukos (business spell)
2. Ro ll. 64-110: Request for a dream oracle of Besa (ritual of apparition, unmediated: dream)
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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 (21/9/2020); 4th-5th century (Kenyon 1893: p. 116 & Preisendanz 1974: p. 45).
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/Viewer.aspx?ref=papyrus_122_f001r

Form:

Roll
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 28 Width: 49 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Col. website (24/9/2020).
Folding pattern:
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.

3
Pages/Columns (notes):

3 columns on recto (→) and a drawing, 110 lines in total.
Hand:

Findspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase:

Luxor, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2985)
Writingspot:

Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

London, British Library
Collection History:

Purchased by the British Museum in 1888, from an Egyptian through Messrs. Bywater, Tanqueray & Co, 12 May 1888 as part of purchase including other Hermonthis Archive texts. Brought from Egypt by acquired by Wallis Budge, where he seems to have acquired them from a dealer living in Luxor(KD 21/9/2020).
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:IAMS040-002104502

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Eitrem, Samson. The Greek Magical Papyri in the British Museum. Kristiana: Dybwad, 1923, p. 21-22.

Kenyon, Frederic G. Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Catalogue, with Texts. Vol. 1. London: Trustees of the British Museum 1893, 115-120, no. 122.

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1974, p. 45-50, no. 8.

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1974, p. 239-240, hymn 4.

Wessely, Carl. “Griechische Zauberpapyrus von Paris und London.” Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philologisch-historische Classe 36,2 (1888): 55-58.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 145-148, no. 8.
General:

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

Delatte, Armand. “Études sur la magie grecque. V. Akephalos Theos.” Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 38 (1914): 189-249.

Dölger, Franz J. Sol Salutis: Gebet und Gesang im Christlichen Altertum. Münster: Aschendorff, 1925, p. 278-279.

Dosoo, Korshi. ‘A History of the Theban Magical Library.’ Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (2016): 265-266.

Gordon, Richard. “Shaping the Text: Innovation and Authority in Graeco-Egyptian Malign Magic.” In H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, H. W. Singor, F. T. Van Straten & J. H. M. Strubbe, (eds.), Kykeon. Studies in honour of H. S. Versnel, Leiden: Brill, 2002, pp. 69-112: 100

Hernández, Raquel Martín. “Reading Magical Drawings in the Greek Magical Papyri.” In P. Schubert (ed.), Actes du 26e Congrès international de papyrologie Genève, 16–21 août 2010, Genève: Droz, 2012, pp. 491-498.

Hopfner, Theodor. Griechisch-Ägyptischer Offenbarungszauber. Mit einer eingehenden Darstellung des griechisch-synkretischen Daemonenglaubens und der Voraussetzungen und Mittel des Zaubers überhaupt und der magischen Divination im besonderen. Vol. 2. Leipzig: H. Haessel Verlag, 1921, §185.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 246, ViP 194.

Preisendanz, Karl. Akephalos, der kopflose Gott. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1926, p. 48-50.

Reitzenstein, Richard. Studien zur griechisch-ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur. Leipzig: Teubner, 1904, p. 20-21.

Trismegistos ID:

59324

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

8

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 72 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: 6
Edit History:

KD (3/4/2019); ST (21/9/2020); ST (22/9/2020); KD (24/9/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M157," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m157. Accessed on 10/12/2025

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