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KYPRIANOS M181

Sigla:

PGM XXXVI
P. Oslo 1.1
P. Oslo I 1
Oslo, University Library P. 420

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Magical (formulary)
Contents:	1. Ro col. 1, ll. 1-34: Ritual to restrain 2. Ro col. 2, ll. 35-68: Ritual to restrain anger 3. Ro col. 3, ll. 69-101: Love spell 4. Ro col. 4, ll. 102-133: Another love spell by fire 5. Ro col. 5, ll. 134-160: Love spell of attraction 6. Ro col. 6, ll. 161-177: Ritual to restrain anger 7. Ro col. 7, ll. 178-188: To break spells 8. Ro col. 8, ll. 189-210: Love spell of attraction 9. Ro col. 9, ll. 211-230: Prayer to Helios (to restrain anger, for victory and favour) 10. Ro col. 10, ll. 231-255: Curse 11. Ro col. 11, ll. 256-264: To break spells 12. Ro col. 11, ll. 265-274: Unclear 13. Ro col. 12, ll. 275-279: For favour (and exorcism) 14. Vo col.1, ll. 283-294: Love spell 15. Vo col.1, ll. 295-311: Love spell by fire 16. Vo col.1, ll. 312-320: To open a door 17. Vo col.1, ll. 321-332: Contraception (healing) 18. Vo col.1, ll. 333-360: Love spell by myrrh 19. Vo col.1, ll. 361-371: Love spell
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Language(s):	Greek
Script(s):	Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	301 – 400
Date notes:	GEMF dating (24/9/2020); 4th century (Preisendanz 1974: p. 162).
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.	KYP A16
Archive name:	Fayum Magical Archive
State of edition:	Published.
Image:	https://ub-media.uio.no/OPES/jpg/P.Oslo.inv1c01_2.jpg

Form:	Roll (recto) Rotulus (verso)
Material:	Papyrus

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 24.3

Width: 244

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	Eitrem 1925.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:	Complete. Small amounts of damage to roll.
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.	13
Pages/Columns (notes):	12 columns recto (→), 1 column verso (↓). Verso at 90 degrees to recto. 371 lines. 7 drawings, in columns 1-4, 7, 8, 10.
Hand:

Findspot:	Theadelphia, Fayum, Egypt (TM places ID: 2349)
Place of purchase:	Theadelphia, Fayum, Egypt (TM places ID: 2349)
Writingspot:	Theadelphia, Fayum, Egypt (TM places ID: 2349)
Present Location:	Oslo, University Library
Collection History:	Purchased in December 1920 by Samson Eitrem in the Fayum for 165 Egyptian pounds (Hickey et al. 2015: 156-164).
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.	262
Collection website:	http://ipap.csad.ox.ac.uk/4DLink4/4DACTION/IPAPwebquery?vPub=P.Oslo&vVol=1&vNum=1

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography

Editions:	Eitrem, Samson. Papyri Osloenses. Vol. 1. Magical Papyri. Oslo: On commission by Jacob Dybwad. Published by the Academy of Science and Letters of Oslo, 1925, no. 1. Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1974, p. 162-175, no. 36.
Translations:	Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 269-278, no. 36.
General:	Deubner, Ludwig. “Papyri Osloenses. I, Magical Papyri edit. by S. Eitrem.” Gnomon 2 (1926): 406-412. Eitrem, Samson. “Papyri Osloenses. Fasc. I. Magical Papyri.” Orientalische Literaturzeitung 30 (1927): 99. Gaster, Moses. “Papyri Osloenses by S. Eitrem.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2 (1927): 400-402. Gordon, Richard. “The Coherence of Magical-Herbal and Analogous Recipes,” MHNH 7 (2007): 129-134. Graham, Lloyd. ” Perseus, Mars and the Figurae Magicae of PGM XXXVI”, (2016) published on-line in https://www.academia.edu/28232099/Perseus_Mars_and_the_figurae_magicae_of_PGM_XXXVI. Hickey, Todd, Anastasia Maravela and Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, “Historical and Textual Notes on Magical Texts in the Papyrus Collection of the University of Oslo Library”, Symbolae Osloenses, 89.1 (2015): 156-182. Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 246, ViP 204. Love, Edward O. D. ““Crum’s Chicken”: Alpak, Demonised Donkeys, and Avianised Demons among the Figures of Demotic, Greek, and Coptic Magical Texts”, in Magikon Zōon: Animal and Magic, edited by Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming). McDonald, Peta Louise. The Iconography of the Images in the Magical Papyri (Masters thesis, Macquarie University, 2015). Peterson, Erik. “Eitrem, S. (Ed.), Papyri Osloenses. Fasc. 1.” Theologische Literaturzeitschrift: Monatsschrift für das gesamte Gebiet der Theologie und Religionswissenschaft 51 (1926). Preisendanz, Karl. Akephalos, der kopflose Gott. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1926, p. 63-66.

Trismegistos ID:

64479

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae	36	SM: Supplementum Magicum	GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	68	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”		AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte	CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database		Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database	06010.000
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires	1080	Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"	TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum		To Zodion:	2

Edit History:

ST (24/9/2020); ST (25/9/2020); KD (28/9/2020)

How to cite:

Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M181," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m181. Accessed on 28/04/2025

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