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KYPRIANOS M483

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PGM XXXII
London, University College, Dept. of Greek and P. 312

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. 1-19: Applied love spell to make Sarapias, daughter of Helen, love Herais, daughter of Thermoutharin
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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. 101 – 200
Date notes:

Milne (1913: p. 393); TM (29/5/20)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A39
Archive name: Hawara Magical Dossier
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 12.6 Width: 8.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

The papyrus is torn at the bottom (Milne, 1913: p. 393).
Folding pattern:

1 vertical, 6 (?) horizontal creases.
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.

1
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column, recto (→), 19 lines.
Hand:

Hawara Scribe

Findspot:

Haueris (Hawara), Egypt

(TM places ID: 747)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 747)
Present Location:

London, University College, Dept. of Greek and Latin
Collection History:

Found in the surface soil of the Hawara Cemetery by Flinders Petrie in 1889.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 412
Collection website: https://papyri.info/dclp/63590

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1931, p. 157-158, no. 32.

Milne, Joseph G., “The Hawara Papyri.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 5 (1913): 393 & 397, no. 312.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 266, no. 32.
General:

Petrie, William M. Hawara, Biahmu and Arsinoe. London: Field & Tuer, The Leaderhall, 1889, p. 37, no. 312.

Trismegistos ID:

63590

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

32

 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 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 (29/5/2020); ST (3/6/2020); KD (10/6/2020); EL (29/7/2020)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M483," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m483. Accessed on 07/10/2026
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