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KYPRIANOS M484

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PGM XXXIIa
Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms Hawara without number

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Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro, ll. 1-24 + Vo, ll. 25-28: Applied love spell to make Amoneios, son of Helen, love Serapiakos, son of Threpte

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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 – 300
Date notes:

Preisendanz (1931: p. 158); TM (29/5/2020)

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: 17.8 Width: 9.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
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.

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

One column each, recto and verso, 25 lines recto, 4 lines verso.

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:

Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms Hawara

Collection History:

Found in the surface soil of the Hawara Cemetery by Flinders Petrie in 1889, wrapped around a clay figurine (Hunt, 1929: p. 155).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 264
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Notes/Discussion:

Preisendanz (1931: p. 158) notes that it was found bundled with a clay figurine, destroyed by A. S. Hunt when he read the papyrus.

Bibiliography
Editions:

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

Hunt, Arthur S. “An Incantation in the Ashmolean Museum.” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 15 (1929): 155–157.


Translations:

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


General:

Trismegistos ID:

63907

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

32a

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); KD (2/6/2020); ST (3/6/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M484," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m484. Accessed on 12/05/2025

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