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KYPRIANOS M180

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

PGM CXXIIIa
SM 96a
GEMF 82
P.Mil. Vogl. inv. 1245
P. Mil. Vogl. 123
Pisa, Università P. Cazzaniga 1 (previous)

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. 1-47: Invocation with figures.
2. Ro ll. 48-50: For childbearing (healing).
3. Ro ll. 51-52: For sleep (healing)
4. Ro ll. 53-55: For strangury (healing)
5. Ro ll. 56-59: For a shivering fit/fever (healing)
6. Ro ll. 60-62: Recipe for unclear purposes
7. Ro ll. 63-65: Recipe for unclear purposes
8. Ro ll. 66-68: Recipe for unclear purposes
9. Ro ll. 69-71: For victory
10. Ro l. 72: Recipe for unclear purposes

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Language(s):

Greek

Script(s):

Greek
Coptic

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:

Text is in Greek, but some of the magical names include hori.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 500
Date notes:

TM (25/3/19)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A17
Archive name: Multilingual Library
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Rotulus

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 86 Width: 14 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel, Maltomini 1991 (SM II): p. 232.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary.

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, 72 lines. Written transversa charta.

Hand:

Hand A

Findspot:

Herakleopolites, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2713)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Herakleopolites, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2713)
Present Location:

Milan, Università Statale

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 229
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 232-252, no. 96a.

Maltomini, Franco. “I papiri greci.” Studi Classici e Orientali 29 (1980): 55-124.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 318-319, no. CXXIIIa.


General:

Faraone. Christopher A. “Rubric Confusion in SM 96A.24–47: A Fragment of Erotylos’ Orphica or a Recipe for a Rotulus Amulet?”, Symbolae Osloenses, 96.1 (2022): 230-242


Trismegistos ID:

65847

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

123a

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

96

GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 82 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

06014.000

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)"

83

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Edit History:

KD (27/3/2019); MPS (9/9/2020); KD (26/9/2023)


How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M180," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m180. Accessed on 20/10/2026
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