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KYPRIANOS M617

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

Berlin P. 21269
SB 18 13250
BKT 9 173
ACM 34

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

Oracle ticket
Documentary (letter) (?)
Contents:

Original use (?):

1. Ro: End of a letter.

Re-use (?):

2. Vo ll. 1-5: Oracle ticket with response (“yes”).
See all texts in this manuscript.

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. 501 – 700
Date notes:

TM (1/10/2018)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_21269_R_001.jpg

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.6 Width: 9.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Treu 1986: p. 29.
Folding pattern:

3 (?) vertical, 5 (?) horizontal creases.
State of preservation:

Palimpsest.
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 verso (→) oracular re-use, 5 lines. Original documentary use recto (↓)
Hand:

Findspot:

Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 327)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 327)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: http://berlpap.smb.museum/

Notes/Discussion:

Publication in Treu assumes that the oracle ticket is the original use, but the fact that the oracle ticket is preserved, but only the end of the letter survives suggests the reverse (KD 18/11/2020).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Ioannidou, G. Berliner Klassikertexte IX, Catalogue of Greek and Latin Literary Papyri in Berlin (BKT IX) Mainz, 1996 no. 173.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 18. (SB XVIII). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993, no. 13250.

Treu, Kurt. “Varia Christiana II”, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 32 (1986): p. 29-30.
Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 54-55, no. 34.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

36291

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

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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:

KD (18/11/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M617," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m617. Accessed on 03/11/2025

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