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KYPRIANOS M162

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PDM xiv
PGM XIV
P. Leiden I 383 + P. BM EA 10070
P. Leid. I 383/Anastasy 65 (1828) + P.BM. EA 10070/Anastasy 1072 (1857)
Anastasi 65 (1828)
Anastasi 1072 (1857)
P. London-Leiden

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Front cols. i.1-iii.30=ll.1-87: [A vessel inquiry which a physician of] the nome of Oxyrhynchus [gave to me] (divination)
2. Front col. iii 31–32=ll. 88–89: If you want to make the gods come in to you and for the vessel to be enchanted quickly (divination)
3. Front col. iii 33–35=ll. 90–92: An amulet to bind to the front of the one who carries the vessel to make it enchant quickly (divination)
4. Front col. iv.1-22=ll. 93-114: A (horoscope)-casting which the Great God Imhotep performs (divination)
5. Front col. iv 23=l.115: ‹Formula› for security of shadows
6. Front col. iv 24=l.116: Another again (for security of shadows)
7. Front col. v.1-23, 33-34=ll.117-139, 149a-b: A tested divine audience (divination)
8. Front col. v 24–32=ll.140–148: The ointment that you put on your eyes when you go to inquire of the lamp in any lamp inquiry
9. Front cols. vi.1-viii.11=ll.150-231: An inquiry of the lamp (divination)
10. Front col. viii 12–18=ll.232–238: A divine audience at the request of Pisash the priest of Kes
11. Front cols. ix.1-x.22=ll.239-295: The vessel inquiry of Khonsu (divination)
12. Front col. x. 22-35=ll.295-308: Solitary vessel inquiry to see the Barque of the Sun (divination)
13. Front col.xi.1-26=ll.309-334: A formula to give praise (favour)
14. Front col.xii.1-21=ll.335-355: [Formula to make] a woman love a man (love spell)
15. Front col. xii.21-31=ll.355-365: Another of them again to give favour to a man before a woman and vice versa before [a man] (love spell)
16. Front col. xiii.1-10=ll.366-375: The way to separate a man from a woman and a woman from her husband (separation)
17. Front col. xiii.11-26=ll.376-391: ‹The recipes› into which the shrew goes (curse, love, favour)
18. Front col. xiii.27-29=ll.392-394: The writings which you recite to the ring when you take the woman (love spell)
19. Front col. xiv.1-34=ll.395-427: [Vessel inquiry] (divination)
20. Front col.xv.1-23=ll.428-450: A potion (love spell)
21. Front col. xv.24-31=451-458: ‹Formula› for going before a superior who fights with you and does not speak to you (favour/reconciliation)
22. Front col.xvi 1–30=ll. 459–488: The words for the lamp (divination)
23. Front col.xvii.1-26=ll.489-515: Another manner of it again (divination)
24. Front cols. xvii.26-xviii.6=ll.515-527: Another (divination)
25. Front col. xviii.7-24=ll.528-553: ‹Another› vessel inquiry which a physician in the nome of Oxyrhynchus gave to me (divination)
26. Front col. xix.1-9=ll.554-562: ‹Formula› to speak for a dog bite (healing)
27. Front col. xix.10-21=ll.563-574: ‹Formula› to be speak to remove poison from the heart of a man (healing)
28. Front col. xix.21-32=ll.574-585: ‹Formula› to speak for a man when there is a bone in his throat (healing)
29. Front col. xix.32-40=ll.585-593: Formula to speak for the bite of a dog (healing)
30. Front col. xx.1-27=ll.594-620: ‹Formula› to be spoken against a sting (healing)
31. Front col. xx.27-33=ll.620-626: Formula to be spoken to bring a bone out of a throat (healing)
32. Front col. xxi.1-9=ll.627-635: The vessel inquiry of Osiris (divination)
33. Front col. xxi.10-43=ll.636-669: ‹Method› of the scarab in the cup of wine to make a woman love a man (love spell)
34. Front col. xxii.1-5=ll.670-674: This is (the formula) of the name of the Great One of Five (divination)
35. Front col. xxiii.1-20=ll.675-694: A formula to cause evil sleep to fall (curse)
36. Front col. xxiii.21-26=ll.695-700: ‹Method› to inquire before the moon (divination)
37. Front col. xxiii.27-31=ll.701-705: Another manner of it (divination)
38. Front col. xxiv 1–5 (right)=ll. 706–710: For evil sleep, another (curse)
39. Front col. xxiv.1-5 (left)=ll.711-715: Tested prescription if you wish to cause evil sleep on a man (curse)
40. Front col. xxiv.6-14=ll. 716-724: Another if you wish to make a man sleep for 2 days (curse)
41. Front col. xxiv.14-16=ll.724-726: Another (prescription for evil sleep) (curse)
42. Front col. xxiv 17-25=ll. 727-735: Prescription to cause a man evil sleep (curse)
43. Front col. xxiv 25–26=ll. 735–736: Another (to cause evil sleep) (curse)
44. Front col. xxiv 26=l. 736: Another (to cause evil sleep) (curse)
45. Front col. xxiv.27-28=ll.737-738: Prescription for evil sleep (curse)
46. Front col. xxiv.29-30=ll.739-740: Another (prescription to kill a man) (curse)
47. Front col. xxiv.31=l.741: Another (to blind a man) (curse)
48. Front col. xxiv.32=l.742: Another (to kill or blind a man) (curse)
49. Front col. xxiv.33-39=ll.743-749: Another (to kill or blind a man) (curse)
50. Front col. xxiv.1-5 (right)=ll.706-710: For evil sleep, another (curse)
51. Front col. xxv.1-22=ll.750-771: The words of the lamp to inquire of the boy (divination)
52. Front cols. xxv.23-xxvi.18=ll.772-804: A method to set the heart of a woman after a man (love spell)
53. Front col. xxvii.1-12=ll.805-16: Another vessel inquiry alone to see the barque of the sun (divination)
54. Front col. xxvii.13-36=ll.817-840: The manner of doing the vessel inquiry of the lamp (divination)
55. Front col. xxviii.1-10=ll.841-850: Another type of vessel inquiry alone (divination)
56. Front col. xxviii.11-15=ll.851-855: Another vessel inquiry (divination)
57. Front col. xxix.1-20=856-875: This is the way to inquire of the sun (divination)
58. Front col. xxix.20-30=ll.875-885: This is another manner of it again (divination)
59. Back col. i.1-11=ll.886-896: (ingredients)
60. Back col. ii.1-15=ll.897-910: (ingredients)
61. Back col. ii.16-20=ll.911-916: To cause evil sleep (curse)
62. Back col. iia [not published in Betz]: (Two cipher alphabets)
63. Back col. iii.1-3=ll.917-919: Prescription [for evil sleep] (curse)
64. Back col. iii.4-13=ll.920-929: (ingredients)
65. Back col. iii.14-16=ll.930-932: Prescription to cause a woman to love a man (love)
66. Back col. iii.17=18=ll.933-934: (ingredients)
67. Back col. iv.1-5=ll.935-939: Prescription for a watery ear (healing)
68. Back col. iv.6-19=ll.940-952: (ingredients)
69. Back col. v.1-3=ll.953-955: Prescription to stop blood (healing)
70. Back col. v 4–8=ll.956–960: The method of knowing of a woman if she is pregnant
71. Back col. v 9–11=ll.961–963: Prescription to stop blood (healing)
72. Back col. v 11–13=ll.963–965: Another
73. Back col. v.14-17=ll.966-969: (ingredients)
74. Back col. vi.1-8=ll.970-977: Prescription cure liquid in a woman (healing)
75. Back col. vii.1-4=ll.978-980: Another (to stop blood) after it (healing)
76. Back col. vii.4-6=ll.981-984: Another (to stop blood) after it (healing)
77. Back col. viii.1-8=ll.985-992: Gout (healing)
78. Back col. ix.1-10=ll.993-1002: Another (for gout) (healing)
79. Back col. x.1-12=ll.1003-1014: Another amulet for the foot of the gouty man (healing)
80. Back col. xi.1-6=ll.1015-1020: Prescription for [gout?] (healing)
81. Back col. xi.7-9=ll.1021-1023: A prescription for a very stiff foot (healing)
82. Back col. xi.10-11=ll.1024-1025: Another (for gout) (healing)
83. Back cols. xii.1-xiii.9=ll.1026-1045: (Love spell)
84. Back col. xiii.10-11=ll.1046-1047: ‹Prescription› to make a woman love ‹her› husband
85. Back col. xiii.11-12=ll.1047-1048: ‹Prescription› to make a woman love copulating
86. Back col. xiv.1-7=ll.1049-1055: ‹Prescription› to make [a woman love copulating ?]
87. Back col. xv.1-7=ll.1056-1062: The names of the gods for when you want to bring in a thief by vessel inquiry (?) (divination)
88. Back col. xvi.1-7=ll.1063-1069: (Love spell)
89. Back col. xvii.1-8=ll.1070-1077: A formula to bring a woman to a man, to send dreams, also said elsewhere to make you see dreams (divination, love spell)
90. Back col. xviii.1-12=ll.1078-1089: (Lamp or stellar inquiry)
91. Back col. xix=ll.1090-1096: A formula to bring a woman out of her house (love spell)
92. Back col. xx.1-7=ll.1097-1103: ‹Formula› to heal the ‘bad-eye’ in a man (healing)
93. Back col. xxi.1-6=ll.1104-1109: (Unclear)
94.Back col. xxii.1-20=ll.1110-1129: A tested [vessel inquiry] (divination)
95. Back col. xxiii.1-12=ll.1130-1140: (Prescription to make a woman love her husband)
96. Back col. xxiv.1-13=ll.1141-1154: (Lamp inquiry) (divination)
97.Back col. xxv.1-8=ll.1155-1162: (Prescription to make a woman love her husband)
98. Back col. xxvi 1–9=ll. 1163–1171: If you want to make the gods of the vessel speak with you when they come in (divination)
99. Verso col. xxvii 1–8=ll. 1172–1179: According to what is above on the recto (divination)
100. Back col. xxviii ll.1–2=1180–1181: You will make a star come down (divination?)
101. Back col. xxix.1-6=ll.1182-1187: [Method] to make any man or woman mad (with love)
102. Back col. xxx.1-2=ll.1188-1189: (Method to cause abortion?) (healing)
103. Back col. xxx.3-6=ll.1190-1193: Another (to make a woman love you)
104. Back col. xxx.7-8=ll.1194-1195: Another (to make a woman love you)
105. Back col. xxx.9-11=ll.1196-1198: (To stop menstrual bleeding?) (healing)
106. Back col. xxxi 1–7=ll.1199–1205: (Formula to use in a lamp inquiry recipe) (divination)
107. Back col. xxxii.1-13=ll.1206-1218: To make a woman mad (with love) after a man
108. Back col. xxxiii.1-9=ll.1219-1227: (Formula against fever) (healing)
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Demotic)
Greek
Script(s):

Demotic
Greek
Old Coptic
Dialect:

Demotic close to Proto-Theban (P)
Language/dialect notes:

See Johnson 1977.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 101 – 250
Date notes:

Quack. 151-250 (TM 21/9/2018). 101-300 (GEMF 11/7/2019). 201-226 (BM Website 21/9/2018). 201-300 (DCPL 21/9/2018)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A1
Archive name: Theban Magical Library
State of edition:

Published
Image: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/933547001

Form:

Roll
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 25 Width: 500 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:

Rolled in antiquity.
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.

62
Pages/Columns (notes):

Recto 29 columns, verso 33. The columns on the recto side contain about 30 lines, however the number of lines per column vary between 43 and 5. Written lines: 28, 29, 35, 24, 34, 37, 18, 26, 31, 33, 30, 32, 40, 43, 5, 39, 36, 15, 11, 20, 19, 17, 8, 7, 10, 12, 13, 2, 6. (DCLP 27/9/2018). Width of column is of col. 2 (measured KD from photo 7/6/2020).
Hand:

Regular hand, experienced scribe.

Findspot:

Dios Polis, Thebes East, Egypt

(TM places ID: 576)
Place of purchase:

Dios Polis, Thebes East, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 576)
Writingspot:

Dios Polis, East Bank of Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 576)
Present Location:

Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities
London, British Museum
Collection History:

Purchased in Thebes with other papyri and bought by Jean d’Anastasy (Swedish consul in Alexandria). It was probably already torn in two parts and Anastasy may even have obtained them at different times, as he sold one to the Dutch government in 1828 and the other was acquired by the British Museumin 1857. (Griffith, Thompson 1904: p. 1; Dosoo 2016).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 178193
Collection website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?keyword=10070&place=Egypt&view=grid&sort=object_name__asc&page=1

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Griffith, Francis L. and Herbert Thompson. The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden. Vol. 1. London: Grevel, 1904, p. 200–204.

Brugsch, Heinrich. Grammaire démotique: contenant les principes généraux de la langue et de l’écriture populaires des anciens Égyptiens. Ägyptologische Literatur. Berlin: Dümmler, 1855 (p. 202 & pl. 9 [b]).

Preisendanz, Karl (ed.). Papyri Graecae magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, no. xiv. [only Greek]

Leemans, Conrad. Papyrus égyptien démotique à transcriptions grecques du Musée d’Antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leide. Leiden: Brill, 1839. [transcription of Leiden sections]

Maspero, Gaston. “Études démotiques.” Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes no. 1 (1870): 18–40, col. 20-21 only.

Revillout, Eugène. “Papyrus magique de Londres et de Leide.” Revue égyptologique no. 2 (1881): 271–272. [beginning London fragment only]

Revillout, Eugène. “Papyrus magique de Londres et de Leide.” Revue égyptologique no. 11(1904): 178–188.

Revillout, Eugène. “Papyrus magique de Londres et de Leide.” Revue égyptologique no. 12 (1907): 60–71.

Revillout, Eugène. “Papyrus magique de Londres et de Leide.” Revue égyptologique no. 14 (1914): 33–37 (col. 4/1-24 only).
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 195–251, no. PDM xiv/PGM XIV.
General:

Dieleman, Jacco. “Abundance in the Margins: Multiplicity of Script in the Demotic Magical Papyri.” In Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures, edited by Seth L. Sanders. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006: 67-81.

Dieleman, Jacco. Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 CE). Leiden: Brill, 2005.

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

Dosoo, Korshi, Alberto Nodar, & Panagiota Sarischouli. “Bilingual Scribes in Magical Formularies: The Cases of PGM/PDM XII (= GEMF 15) and XIV (= GEMF 16)”, Symbolae Osloenses (2025) 1-32.

Hess, Johann J. Der gnostische Papyrus von London: Einleitung, Text und demotisch-deutsches Glossar. Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1892, pp. 10-11 (description, London part only).

Johnson, Janet H. “The Dialect of the Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden.” In Studies in Honor of George R. Hughes, edited by Janet H. Johnson and Edward F. Wente. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1977, p. 105-132.

Love, Edward O.D. “Bilingualism and Mono-/Bigraphia at the Nexus of Magical Traditions: From Egyptian-Greek to Coptic-Arabic Magical Texts”, in Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt, edited by Lajos Berkes. Ann Arbor: American Society of Papyrologists, 2002, p. 175-176.

Ort-Geuthner, Georges. Grammaire démotique du papyrus magique de Londres et Leyde. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1936.

Quack, Joachim F. “Griechische und andere Dämonen in den spätdemotischen magischen Texten.” In Das Ägyptische und die Sprachen Vorderasiens, Nordafrikas und der Ägäis, edited by Thomas Schneider (Munster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2004), 427-507.

See also Griffith, Francis L. and Herbert Thompson. The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden. Vol. 1. London: Grevel, 1904, see p. 7-8 for bibliography up to the year 1904.

DCLP: http://litpap.info/dclp/55955

BM: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=114184&partId=1

TM: trismegistos.org

Trismegistos ID:

55955

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

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Edit History:

MPS (21/9/2018); MPS (27/9/2018); KD (15/7/2019); EL (28/7/2020); KD (11/9/2020); MPS (24/11/2020); KD (21/3/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M162," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m162. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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