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KYPRIANOS M419

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

PGM Christian 5a
Brussels, Musées Royaux E 5980a
P. Oxy VI 924
Mertens-Pack 06043.000

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. 1-18, Vo l. 1: Healing amulet to protect Aria from fever.

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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 – 400
Date notes:

TM (19/2/2019); Grenfell & Hunt 1931: p. 289.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A76
Archive name: Oxyrhynchus Christian Amulet Dossier
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 9 Width: 7.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Grenfell & Hunt 1931: p. 289.

Folding pattern:

5 vertical, 4 (?) horizontal folds.

State of preservation:

Complete, missing piece in the middle of the text.

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 each recto (→) and verso (↓), 18 lines recto, 1 line verso. Verso at 90 degrees to recto so it follows the fibre direction.

Hand:

Oxyrhynchus Christian Amulet Dossier Hand

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Brussels, Musées Royaux

Collection History:

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 64
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

P. Oxy. VI 924, P. Oxy LXXXII 5306, 5307 are all written in the same hand (Maltomini 2016: p. 76-77).

Similar to BGU 956 and Tebt 275
Image: de Haro Sanchez 2010, p. 136.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Blumell, Lincoln H. and Thomas A. Wayment. Christian Oxyrynchus. Texts, Documents, and Sources. Waco: Bylor University Press, 2015, no. 94 (MPS non vidi).

de Haro Sanchez, Magali. “Le vocabulaire de la pathologie et de la thérapeutique dans les papyrus iatromagiques grecs. Fièvres, traumatismes et « épilepsie ».” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 47 (2010): p. 134-136.

★ Grenfell, Bernard P., and Athur S. Hunt. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 6. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1908, p. 289-290, no. 924.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 212, Christliches no. 5a.

Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” Patrologia orientalis 18.3 (1924): p. 401-403, no. A.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 39-40, no. 15.


General:

Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” Patrologia orientalis 18.3 (1924): p


Trismegistos ID:

64394

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 5a

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

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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

953

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

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

MPS (13/2/2019); MPS (19/2/2019); KD (25/2/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M419," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m419. Accessed on 18/05/2024

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