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KYPRIANOS M545

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BM EA 10808 + P. EES Oxyrhynchus 105/124 Recto

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Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro col. x+1 ll. 1-11: Ritual to cause an angel who is upon the barque of the Sun-god to come to the practitioner so that he completes the NN deed (comparable to those for acquiring a πάρεδρος).
2. Ro col. x+1 ll. 12-20+: Fragment of a ritual to send a “person of the necropolis” (i.e. ghost), perhaps in a dream
3. Ro col. x+2 ll. 1-17: Love spell invoking the Sro-Decan and the Enemy of Wennefer and Osiris Khentyimentiu
4. Ro col. x+2 ll. 17-39: Love spell invoking Kai and the Enemy of Wennefer and Osiris Khentyimentiu
5. Ro col. x+2 ll. 39-53: Love spell invoking the Uraeus and the Enemy of Wennefer and Osiris Khentyimentiu
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Classical)
Egyptian (Demotic)
Script(s):

Coptic (Old)
Demotic
Dialect:

Middle Egyptian
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 151 – 225
Date notes:

151-225 CE (Love 2022)
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published (column x+2).
Image: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=876309001&objectid=118184

Form:

Roll
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 29.2 Width: 16.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary. Column x+2 complete except for slight damage. Column x+1 preserved only from a fragment in of the upper third of the column, and traces in the right margin of column x+2
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):

Two surviving columns recto. Column x+1, c. 20 surviving lines. Column x+2, 52 lines.
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:

London, British Museum
Collection History:

Excavated in Oxyrhynchus during Grenfell and Hunt’s third season (1904). Taken from Parcel 21.3B/29F of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri to British Museum in 1968. Adjoining fragment is housed in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri in the Papyrology Rooms of the Sacker Library, Oxford (Love fc.)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 193
Collection website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10808

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter Ewing. “An Egyptian text in Greek characters”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 28, 1942, p. 20-31.

Dieleman, Jacco. “Ein spätägyptisches magisches Handbuch. Eine neue PDM oder PGM?”, in: F., Hoffmann, H. J., Thissen, (eds.), Res severa verum gaudium: Festschrift für Karl-Theodor Zauzich zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 2004, 2004, p. 121-128.

Love, Edward O. D. “GEMF 14 (BM EA 10808).” In Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Sofía Torallas-Tovar, vol. 1, 2022, no. 14.

Osing, Jürgen. Der spätägyptische Papyrus BM 10808, Wiesbaden, 1976.

Quack, Joachim Friedrich, Demotische magische Papyri, vol. 4 (in preparation), no. 23.

Quack, Joachim F.. Review: “Sederholm, Val Hinckley: Papyrus British Museum 10808 and its Cultural and Religious Setting”, Orientalistische Literarturzeitung 104, 2009, pp. 27-33.

Sederholm, Val Hinckley. Papyrus British Museum 10808 and its cultural and religious setting, Leiden, 2006.

Volten, Aksel. “An Egyptian Text in Greek Characters”, in: Studia orientalia Ioanni Pedersen: septuagenario a collegis discipulis amicis dicata, 1953, p. 364-376.
Translations:
General:

Aufrère, Sydney, H.. “La dernière ronde des hieroglyphs… La mort des écritures égyptiennes traditionnelles et l’émergence des premiers signes coptes”, in: N. Bosson and S. H. Aufrère (eds.), Égyptes … l’égyptien et le copte: catalogue de l’exposition, 1999, pp. 27-68., there 56.

Dekker, Renate. Review: “Sederholm, Val Hinckley: Papyrus British Museum 10808 and its Cultural and Religious Setting”. BibOr LXX 1-2, 2013: 61-64.

Love, Edward O. D. 2021. “The Nature of Old Coptic I: Approaching and Contextualising Old Coptic (§1-4); Old Coptic at Oxyrhynchus (§5)”. Journal of Coptic Studies 23, §5.2.4.

Love, Edward O. D. 2021. Script-switching in Roman Egypt: Case Studies in Script Conventions, Domains, Shift, and Obsolescence from Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, and Old Coptic Manuscripts, Berlin, §5.2.2.1.

Moje, Jan. Review: “Sederholm, Val Hinckley: Papyrus British Museum 10808 and its Cultural and Religious Setting”. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 6(6), 2009, p. 1-4.

Osing, Jürgen. “The Dialect of Oxyrhynchus”. Enchoria 8, 1978: 29*/75-36*/82.

Osing, Jürgen. “Zu einigen altkoptischen Wortformen”, in: P. Collombert, D. Lefèvre, S. Polis, et J. Winand (eds.), Aere perennius. Mélanges égyptologiques en l’honneur de Pascal Vernus, 2016, p. 517-520.

Quack, Joachim F.. “Griechische und andere Dämonen in den spätdemotischen magischen Texten”, in: S., Thomas (Hg.), Das Ägyptische und die Sprachen Vorderasiens, Nordafrikas und der Ägäis: Akten des Basler Kolloquiums zum ägytisch-nichtsemitischen Sprachkontakt, Basel 9.-11. Juli 2003, 2004, p. 428-429 with footnotes.

Quack, Joachim F.. “How the Coptic Script Came About”, in: E. Grossman, P. Dils, T. S. Richter, W. Schenkel, (eds.), Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic: Contact-Induced Change in an Ancient African Language, Hamburg, 2017, p. 64.

Quack, Joachim F.. “The Last Stand? What remains Egyptian in Oxyrhynchus”, in: K. S. B. Ryholt and G. Barjamovic (eds.), Problems of canonicity and identity formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, 2016, p. 118-119.

Satzinger, Helmut. Review: “Sederholm, Val Hinckley: Papyrus British Museum 10808 and its Cultural and Religious Setting”. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 2012, p. 327-330.

Shisha-Halevy, Ariel. Review: “Der spätägyptische Papyrus BM 10808 by Jürgen Osing”. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 66, 1980: 181-186.

Vergote, Jozef. “La vocalisation des formes verbales en égyptien. Des matériaux nouveaux?”. Bibliotheca Orientalis XXXIV 3/4, 1977, p. 135-139.

Trismegistos ID:

108583

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 14 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:

EL (30/10/2018); EL (7/1/2019); EL (14/1/2019); EL (18/8/2020); KD (14/9/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M545," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m545. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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