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KYPRIANOS M182

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

PGM CXXVII
SM 76
P. Yale inv.1206 + P. Lund. inv. 2091
SB XIV 11909
SB 14 11909

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro, col. 1, ll. 1-2: Love spell
2. Ro, col. 1, ll. 5-10, col. 2, ll. 1-6: Love spell
3. Ro, col. 2, ll. 7-11: Love spell
4. Ro, col. 2, ll. 12-15, col. 3, ll. 1-10: Love spell
5. Ro, col. 3, ll. 11-15, col. 4, ll. 1-10: Love spell
6. Ro, col. 4, ll. 11-15: Love spell
7. Ro, col. 5, ll. 1-16: Love spell
8. Ro, col. 6, ll. 1-2: Recipe for drooping (healing, paignion)
9. Ro, col. 6, ll. 3-4: Seduction in the bath (love spell, paignion)
10. Ro, col. 6, ll. 5-6: To trick a woman (love spell, paignion)
11. Ro, col. 6, ll. 7-8: Causing a fight at a banquet (curse, paignion)
12. Ro, col. 6, ll. 9-10: To make vinegar sharp (paignion)
13. Ro, col. 6, ll. 11-12: For frequent sexual intercourse (healing, paignion)
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. 201 – 300
Date notes:

GEMF; Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 142); 201-400 (TM 23/5/20)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: http://findit.library.yale.edu/iiif/mirador_viewer?oid=15516349&page=1#page/1/mode/1up

Form:

Roll
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 16.5 Width: 75 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Full height is preserved on a few fragments. Width is minimum, based on surviving fragments (GEMF).
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.

6
Pages/Columns (notes):

6 surviving columns recto (→), with additional fragments.
Hand:

Findspot:

Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat)?, Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2287)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat)?, Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2287)
Present Location:

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library P. CtYBR 1206 qua
Collection History:

A number of fragments in New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, one fragment in Lund, University Library.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 242
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 142-146, no. 76.

Parássoglou, G. “Greek Papyri from Roman Egypt.” Hellenika 27 (1974): 251-253.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 14. (SB XIV). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1982, no. 11909.

Stephens, Susan A. Yale papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library II. Chicago, California: Scholars Press, 1985, no. 134.

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “Notes on Magical Handbooks.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 215 (2020) 34-44.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 322-323, no. 127.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

64529

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

127

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

76

 GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 28 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

06017.000
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)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

ST (23/5/2020); ST (25/5/2020); KD (27/5/2020); EL (27/9/2020); KD (14/9/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M182," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m182. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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