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KYPRIANOS M511

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

PGM LXXIX
Prague, National Library P. Wessely Prag. Gr. I 18
P. Prag 1 4
P. Prag I 4

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-6: Thumokatochon, spell to restrain anger.

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Language(s):

Greek

Script(s):

Greek
Coptic

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:

Erroneously labelled as Old Coptic [EL]

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 201 – 400
Date notes:

TM (23/4/2019); Preisendanz 1973-1974: p. 207.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A62
Archive name: Prague Anger-Restrainer Texts
State of edition:

Published. New edition desirable

Image: http://www.psi-online.it/images/orig/P.Prag.%20I%204%20r.jpg?1422772195

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 14.5 Width: 9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Preisendanz 1973-1974: p. 207.

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:

Prague, National Library

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 286
Collection website: http://www.psi-online.it/documents/pprag;1;4

Notes/Discussion:

Text identical to PGM LXXX. Hopfner notes they are written by different scribes.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Hopfner, Theodor. “Ein neues thumokatochon. Über die sonstigen thumokatocha, katochoi, hupotaktika und phimotika der griechischen Zauberpapyri in ihrem Verhältnis zu den Fluchtafeln.” Archiv Orientální 10 (1938): p. 128-148, no. A.

Maltomini, Franco. “P. Prag 1 4.” In Papyri Graecae Wessely Pragenses, edited by Rosario Pintaudi, Růžena Dostálová and Ladislav Vidman. Firenze: Gonnelli, 1988.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Albert Henrichs. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1973–1974, p. 207, no. LXXIX.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 299, no. PGM 79 (transl. by Roland F. Hock).


General:

Oerter, Wolf, B. “Die koptischen Texte aus der Sammlung Papyri Wessely Pragenses Stand Juli 2001. Recherchen zum koptischen Schrifttum in Prager Museen und Sammlungen II”. In Akten des 23. Internationalen Papyrologenkongress, Wien, 22.-28. Juli 2001, edited by Bernhard Palme. Papyrologica Vindobonensia 1. Wien: ÖAW Verlag 2007, p. 483-487.


Trismegistos ID:

64344

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

79

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 53 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:

MPS (17/4/2019); MPS (23/4/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (22/1/2020); MPS (27/5/2020); MPS (9/9/2020); MPS (26/10/2021); image link provided by James Cowey added by KD (5/11/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M511," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m511. Accessed on 11/05/2025

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