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KYPRIANOS M759

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

PGM XXIII
KV53
P. Oxy. III 412
London, British Library Pap 2040

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

Magical (formulary ?)
Literary (Epic/miscellany)
Documentary (legal)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro ll. 1-70: Fuller version of necromancy scene from Book 11 of the Odyssey from the Kestoi of Julius Africanus.

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-28: Will of Hermogenes
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. 225 – 275
Date notes:

Re-use on verso dated to 276 Jun 25 – Jul 24; Kestoi written after 221.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A40
Archive name: Aurelia Ptolemais
State of edition:

Published.
Image: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_2040

Form:

Roll
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 26.5 Width: 22.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

(Milne 1927: p. 139). Original width might have been circa 4m.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

36
Pages/Columns (notes):

2 numbered columns surviving of 36. 43 lines per page (TM 27/10/2020). Recto, 70 lines (→). Verso, 28 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 Library
Collection History:

Acquired in 1914 (Milne 1927: p. 139).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 192
Collection website: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_2040

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Blumell, Lincoln H., and Thomas A. Wayment. Christian Oxyrynchus. Texts, Documents, and Sources. Waco: Bylor University Press, 2015, p. 307-311, no. 84.

Grenfell, Bernard P., and Athur S. Hunt. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 3. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1903, p. 36-41, no. 412.

Grenfell, Bernard P., and Athur S. Hunt. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 6. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1908, p. 247-253, no. 907 (verso).

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 150-151, no. 23 and Hymnen 24 p. 262.

Strobel, Benedikt. Römische Testamentsurkunden aus Aeg yptenvor und nach der Constitutio Antoniniana. C.H.Beck, 2014. p. 197-237.

Wilcken, Ulrich. Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Vol. 1.2. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagbuchshandlung, 1963, p. 366-368, no. 317.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 262-264, no. PGM 23.
General:

Aland, Kurt (ed.). Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri. Vol. 2. Berlin – New York: W. de Gruyter, 1995, Kirchenväter 53.

Allen, Thomas W., D. H. Sutton, Martin L. West, 2001, h43.

Grubbs, Judith E. Women and the law in the Roman empire. London – New York, Routledge, 2002, p. 249-250.

Milne, Herbert J. M. Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum. London: Trustees, 1927, p. 139, no. 174.

Trismegistos ID:

61406
20370

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

23

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum 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

00053.000
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires

674

 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 (24/9/2020); MPS (27/10/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M759," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m759. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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