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KYPRIANOS M769

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PGM XXXV
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 17995
PSI 1 29

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

Magical (applied ?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-42: Applied amulet for victory and favour for Paulus Ioulianos

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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. 401 – 500
Date notes:

Preisendanz (1931: p. 160); 301-400 (TM 17/8/2020).

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published

Image: http://www.psi-online.it/images/orig/PSI%20I%2029%20r.jpg?1184954232

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 19.7 Width: 12.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:

11 (?) horizontal folds.

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 (→), 42 lines, and a drawing.

Hand:

Documentary cursive 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:

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 128
Collection website: http://www.psi-online.it/documents/psi;1;29

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 160-162, no. 35.

Vitelli, Girolamo. Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto: Papiri greci e latini. Vol. 1. Firenze: Tipografia E. Ariani, 1912, p. 69-71, no. 29.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 268-269, no. 35.


General:

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 246, no. ViP 212.


Trismegistos ID:

64721

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

35

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
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); ST (17/8/2020); KD (9/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M769," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m769. Accessed on 28/06/2025

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