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KYPRIANOS M417

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

PGM Christian 3
P. Oslo I 5

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-12: Amulet calling upon various powers including the Artemisian Scorpion for protection of the house from various evil forces.

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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 – 500
Date notes:

TM (11/9/2020)

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

Published.

Image: https://ub-media.uio.no/OPES/jpg/303r.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 10 Width: 16 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Preisendanz 1931, p. 190.

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.

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto, 12 lines.

Hand:

Small uncial script.

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase:

Cairo, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2740)
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Oslo, University Library

Collection History:

Acquired in Cairo in 1920 by Eitrem (Preisendanz 1974: p. 210 and Tod 1939: p. 58).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 262
Collection website: https://ub-baser.uio.no/opes/record/243

Notes/Discussion:

Does not seem to have been folded.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bilabel, Friedrich. Sammelbuch Griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 3., no. 1. Berlin – Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter, 1926, p. 69, no. 6584.

Eitrem, Samson, and Fridrichsen, Anton. Ein christliches Amulett auf Papyrus. Videnskapsselskapets Forhandlinger 1921, p. 1-31.

Eitrem, Samson. “A New Christian Amulet.” Aegyptus 3.1/2 (1922): 66-67.

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. 5.

★ Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig – Berlin: Teubner, 1974, p. 210, Christliches no. 3.

Tod, Marcus N. “The Scorpion in Graeco-Roman Egypt.” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 25.1 (1939): p. 58-60, no. 4.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 49-50, no. 26.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

64592

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 3

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic

26

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

951

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

18

TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (18/2/2019); MPS (11/9/2020); KD (16/12/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M417," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m417. Accessed on 02/05/2024

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