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KYPRIANOS M446

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PGM Christian 22
Paris, Sorbonne, Institut de Papyrologie 2136
Var18

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Magical (applied)
Liturgical (?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-6: Appeal for assistance, using text from Psalm 140

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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. 601 – 750
Date notes:

TM (4/3/2019); Collart 1933: p. 208: 7th centruy AD.

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://www.papyrologie.paris-sorbonne.fr/photos/2012136.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 10 Width: 12 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Preisendanz 1974: p. 230; 12 x 9 cm (Collart 1940: p. 4).

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 (↓), 6 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Paris, Sorbonne, Institut de Papyrologie

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 275
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Holes indicate it was worn. Writing comparable to Schubart, Papy. Gr. Berol 48b.

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Collart, Paul. “Un Papyrus Reinach Inédit: Psaume 140 sur une amulette.” Aegyptus 13.1/2 (1933): 208-212.

Collart, Paul. Les Papyrus Théodore Reinach. Vol. 2. Cairo: L’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1940, p. 4-6, no. 61.

Preisendanz, Karl, Ernst Heitsch and Albert Henrichs. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 230-231, no. 22 Christliches.


Translations:
General:

Aland, Kurt. Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri. Biblische Papyri, Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Vol. 1. Patristische Texte und Studien 18. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1976, Var18.

Rahlfs, Alfred, and Detlef Fraenkel Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen aufgestellt. Die Überlieferung biz zum VIII. Jahrhundert. Vol. 1.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, 320-321, no. 208.


Trismegistos ID:

62244

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 22

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 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
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires

232

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

114

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

MPS (4/3/2019); MPS (29/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M446," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m446. Accessed on 11/05/2025

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