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KYPRIANOS M756

Sigla:

PGM XX
Berlin P. 7504 + New York, Pierpont Morgan Library Amherst Gr. 11
Philinna Papyrus

Category:

Magical (formulary)
Documentary

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro col. 1, ll. 1-15: Unclear (fragmentary)
2. Ro col. 2, ll. 1-5: Charm against headache (healing)
3. Ro col. 2, ll. 6-14: Charm of the Syrian Woman of Gadara for inflammation (healing)
4. Ro col. 2, ll. 15-22: Charm of Thessalian Philinna for headache (healing)

Re-use:

4. Vo: Documentary Text (taxation? accounts? unpublished)

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Language(s):	Greek
Script(s):	Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	-50 – 50
Date notes:	GEMF dating (10/10/2020). 1st BCE-1st CE (coll. website 10/10/2020).
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:	Published.
Image:	https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_07504_R_001.jpg

Form:	Roll
Material:	Papyrus

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 10

Width: 10

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	Berlin section: 4 (W) x 10 (H); Amherst: 6 (W) x 10 (H) (Preisendanz 1974: p. 145).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:	Fragmentary
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.	1
Pages/Columns (notes):	2 surviving columns recto (→). Column 1: 15 lines, column 2: 22 lines. Documentary text on verso (↓).
Hand:

Findspot:	Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase:	(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:	Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:	Berlin, Staatliche Museen New York, Pierpont Morgan Library
Collection History:	New York part previously belonged to the Amherst private collection in Norfolk. According to Grenfell and Hunt 1901 the papyri in this collection were purchased by them in various parts of Egypt.
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.	40.264
Collection website:	https://berlpap.smb.museum/00216/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography

Editions:	Lloyd-Jones, Hugh and Peter J. Parsons. Supplementum Hellenisticum. Berolini: de Gruyter, 1983, no. 900. Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1974, p. 145, no. 20. Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol 2. (2nd ed.) Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1974, p. 265, hymn 28. Grenfell, Bernard and Arthur S. Hunt. The Amherst Papyri: Being an Account of the Greek Papyri in the Collection of Lord Amherst of Hackney, FSA at Didlington Hall, Norfolk. Vol. 2. Milano: Cisalpino-la Goliardica, 1901, no. 11. Page, Denys Lionel. Poetae melici Graeci: Alcmanis Stésichori Ibyci, Anacreontis Simonidis Corinnae, Poetarum Minorum Reliquias, Carmina Popularia et Convivialia Quaeque Adespota Feruntur. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.
Translations:	Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 258-259, no. 20. Martínez, Calvo, José Luis, and Dolores Sánchez Romero. Textos de Magia en Papiros Griegos. Biblioteca Clásica Gredos. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1987, p. 324.
General:	Abt, A. “X. Nucularum hexas.” Philologus 69 (1910): 150-152. Collins, Derek. “The Magic of Homeric Verses.” Classical Philology 103 (2008): 211-236. Daniel, Robert W. “A Note on the Philinna Papyrus (PGM XX 1-2).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 73 (1988): 306. Dickie, Matthew W. “The Identity of Philinna in the Philinna Papyrus.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1993): 119-122. Faraone, Christopher A. “Handbooks and Anthologies: The Collection of Greek and Egyptian Incantations in Late Hellenistic Egypt.” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 2 (2000):195-214. Henrichs, A.” Zum Text einiger Zauberpapyri” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 6 (1970): 193–212. Koenen, Ludwig. “Der brennende Horosknabe: Zu einem Zauberspruch des Philinna-Papyrus.” Chronique d’Egypte 37 (1962): 167–174. Körte, A. “Referat.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 5 (1913): 542, no. 388. Lehnus, Luigi A. “Maas e Filinna.” Quaderni di Storia 66 (2007): 155-162. Maas, Paul. “The Philinna Papyrus.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 62 (1942): 33-38. Preisendanz, Karl. “Referate.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 8 (1927): 125. Ritner, Robert Kriech. “The Wives of Horus and the Philinna Papyrus (PGM XX).” In: Willy Clarysse, Antoon Schoors and Harco Willems (edd.): Egyptian Religion. The Last Thousand Years. Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Jan Quaegebeur. Vol. 2. Leuven 1998, p. 1027, no. 3. Schubart, Wilhelm and Ulrich Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. “Epische und elegische Fragmente.” Berliner Klassikertexte 5,2 (1907): 144, no. XXII 3. Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “Notes on Magical Handbooks.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 215 (2020) 44-49.

Trismegistos ID:

65576

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae	20	SM: Supplementum Magicum	GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	3	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”		AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte	CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database		Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database	01871.000
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires		Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"	TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum		To Zodion:

Edit History:

KD (9/3/2019); ST (10/10/2020); ST (11/10/2020); KD (14/10/2020); MPS (23/10/2020)

How to cite:

Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M756," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m756. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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