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KYPRIANOS M742

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

P. Oxy. XLII 3068
SM 5
Oxyrhynchus 20 3C.37/K (1-3) b

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

Documentary (letter)
Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-4: Letter concerning the creation of an amulet for healing/protection against tonsillitis for an individual called Sarmates.

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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. 201 – 300
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 16).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://163.1.169.40/gsdl/collect/POxy/index/assoc/HASH9452/a2d04cb7.dir/POxy.v0042.n3068.a.01.hires.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 4.7 Width: 12.1 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 16).

Folding pattern:

1 vertical creases, 1 horizontal creases.

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 (↓). 4 lines written transversa charta.

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:

Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms

Collection History:

Excavated in situ.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 264
Collection website: http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?a=q&r=1&hs=1&e=p-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&h=ded&t=1&q=3068

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 16, no. 5.

Parsons, Peter J. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 42 (P. Oxy. XLII). London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1974, p. 161, no. 3068.


Translations:
General:

Youtie, Herbert C. “Critical Trifles IV.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 19 (1975): 280-281.


Trismegistos ID:

69047

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

5

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

06062.000

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 (2/3/2019); KD (11/7/2019); ST (14/11/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M742," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m742. Accessed on 06/05/2025

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