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KYPRIANOS M757

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

PGM XXI
Berlin P. 9566
GEMF 43
P. Berol. 9566

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

Magical (formulary ?)
Documentary (legal)
Contents:

Original Use:

1. Ro ll. 1-39: Protocol for a court case.

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-29: Invocation for protection
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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:

GEMF dating (11/7/2019); Schubart 1903.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/02671/

Form:

Sheet (?)
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 32 Width: 13 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Preisendanz 1974: p. 146; Schubart 1903.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary; top-right missing, as well as bottom.
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 (↓) with 29 lines. Previous use on recto.
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
Collection History:

Purchased 1894, Sammlung Mosse (Collection website 9/3/2019).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/02671/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Colomo, D. and Gerhardt, M. “GEMF 43 (PGM XXI).” In Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar, vol. 1, 2022, p. 459–461, no. 43.

Merkelbach, Reinhold, and Maria Totti. Abrasax. Vol. 1. Papyrologica Coloniensia 17.1. Opladen: Westdt. Verl., 1990, p. 135-154.

Abt, A. “Nucularum hexas.” Philologus 69 (1910): p. 144-147.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 146, no. 21.

Schubart, Wilhelm. In Ägyptische Urkunden aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Griechische Urkunden. Vol. 3. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1903, no. 893.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 259, no. PGM 21.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

63773
28105

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

21

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 43 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:

KD (9/3/2019); MPS (2/10/2020); MPS (12/10/2020)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M757," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m757. Accessed on 21/10/2026
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