KYP M770

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KYPRIANOS M770

Sigla:

PGM XXXVII
Oslo, University Library P. 301 + St Louis, Washington University 138
P. Wash. Univ. 2 71 + 72
SB 6 9641
SB VI 9641
P. Oslo I 2

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Instructional text Literary (religious text)
Contents:	1. Ro col. 1, ll. 1-23, col. 2 ll. 1-30 (?): Book of the Temple 2. Vo col. ll. 1-27 (?), col. 2 ll. 1-20: Temple manual
	See all texts in this manuscript.

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.	101 – 200
Date notes:	Dates to the second century (Quack 2016: p. 270-271). Oslo fragment dated to 301-400 CE in PGM II: p. 175.
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:	Published; new edition in progress by J. Quack.
Image:	[see notes]

Form:	Roll
Material:	Papyrus

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 18.6

Width: 19.7

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	Dimensions given are of Washington fragment (col. website 28/10/2020). Oslo fragment is 9.3 (H) x 12.4 (W) cm (col. website 29/10(2020), and seems to fit into break in Washington fragment.
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.	4
Pages/Columns (notes):	2 surviving columns each, recto (→) and verso (↓). Recto col. 1: 23 surviving lines, col. 2: 14 surviving lines (Oslo fragment), 16 surviving lines (Washington fragment): Verso col. 1: 12 lines (Oslo fragment), 15 surviving lines (Washington fragment); col. 2: 20 surviving lines.
Hand:	Recto and verso written in different, but similar, hands.

Findspot:	Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524)
Place of purchase:	(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:	Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:	Oslo, University Library St Louis, Washington University
Collection History:	Washington fragment excavated by Flinders Petrie in Oxyrhynchus in early 1922 and sent to Washington University in return for aid (Schuman 1960: p. 159; Quack 2016: p. 269). Oslo fragment purchased by Samson Eitrem in 1920 with material from Oxyrhynchus and the Fayum (col. website 29/10/2020).
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.	262315
Collection website:	[see notes]

Notes/Discussion:

Both texts seem to be manuals for the running of an Egyptian temple, translated from Egyptian into Greek; the recto contains parts of a work attested in Egyptian, known as the Book of the Temple, the verso contains an unknown work of a similar type (see Quack 1997; Quack 2016).

The Oslo fragment forms the upper part of the right-hand column of the second column of the Washington fragment (Wuack 2006: p. 271).

Oslo, University Library P. 301:

Collection website: https://ub-baser.uio.no/opes/record/41
Recto: https://ub-media.uio.no/OPES/jpg/301r.jpg
Verso: https://ub-media.uio.no/OPES/jpg/301v.jpg

St Louis, Washington University 138:
Collection website: http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/8038
Recto: http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/files/original/9862777fecf1f8e295fc9f3909b9b888.jpg
Verso: http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/files/original/df583cddab50e118b264763ab2754b07.jpg

Bibiliography

Editions:	Eitrem, Samson. Papyri Osloenses. Vol. 1. Magical Papyri (P. Oslo). Oslo: Academy of Science and Letters of Oslo, 1925, p. 18-19, no. 2. Maresch, Klaus and Zola M. Packman. Papyri from the Washington University Collection, St. Louis, Missouri, Part II. Opladen: Springer, 1990, p. 32-39, nos. 71-72. Merkelbach, R. “Ein ägyptischer Priestereid”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 2 (1968): 7-30. Preisendanz, Karl, and Albert Henrichs. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, vol. 2, pp. 175-176, no. 37. Preisigke, Friedrich. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 6 (SB VI). Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1964, no. 9641. Schuman, Verne B. “A Second-Century Treatise on Egyptian Priests and Temples”, Harvard Theological Review 53.3 (1960): 159-170. Totti, Maria. Ausgewählte Texte der Isis- und Sarapis-Religion (Subsidia epigraphica 12) (Hildesheim: Greg Olms Verlag, 1985): p. 21-24, nos. 9-10.
Translations:	Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 278, no. 37.
General:	Koenen Ludwig, “Die Unschuldsbeteuerungen des Priestereides und die römische Elegie”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 2 (1968): 31-38. Messerer, Carmen. Corpus des papyrus grecs sur les relations administratives entre le clergé égyptien et les autorités romaines (Pap. Colon. 41/1) (Ferdinand Schöningh, 2017), 10-11. Quack, Joachim Friedrich. “Ein ägyptisches Handbuch des Tempels und seine griechische Übersetzung”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 119 (1997): 297-300. Quack, Joachim Friedrich. “Translating the Realities of Cult: The Case of the Book of the Temple.” In Ian Rutherford, Greco-Egyptian interactions: Literature, Teanslation and Culture, 500 BCE-300 CE (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), p. 267-286. Quack, Joachim Friedrich. “Die Überlieferungsstruktur des Buches vom Tempel.” Tebtynis und Soknopaiou Nesos. Leben im römerzeitlichen Fajum. Akten des Internationalen Symposions vom 11. bis 13. Dezember 2003 in Sommerhausen bei Würzburg, edited by Sandra Lippert and Maren Schentuleit (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 2005), p. 105-115.

Trismegistos ID:

63716

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae	37	SM: Supplementum Magicum	GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	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	02484.000
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); KD (29/10/2020); KD (29/9/2021)

How to cite:

Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M770," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m770. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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