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KYPRIANOS M773

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

P. Vindob. G 1
PGM XL
UPZ I 1
SB I 5103
SB 1 5103
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 1
Vienna, Hofbibliothek 1 494 (previous)

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

Letter to a god
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-18: Curse by Artemisiē, daughter of Amasis, against her daughter’s father; known as the “Curse of Artemisia”.
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Dialect:

Ionic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. -400 – -301
Date notes:

Preisendanz (1931: p. 177); TM (24/8/2020).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: http://digital.onb.ac.at/rep/access/iiif/image/v2/5af078d39f1683785728860db7be9653583a3a6cad61077930155fd0449a891d7a90c5b7a9f853bbe2bdbcf3aec7cf02

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 15 Width: 29.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (9/9/2020)
Folding pattern:

7 (?) vertical creases, 3 (?) horizontal creases.
State of preservation:

Complete (almost), damage to the top, along vertical creases, and significant damage to the middle and right-hand portion of the bottom third of the manuscript, with some text consequently lost.
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 (→), 18 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek
Collection History:

Purchased by the Austrian National Library in Egypt prior to 1826 (Petrettini 1826: p. 5).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: https://search.onb.ac.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=ONB_alma71249251430003338&context=L&vid=ONB&lang=de_DE

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bastianini, Guido. “La maledizione de Artemisia (UPZ I 1): Un Protocollo.” Tyche 2 (1987): 1-3.

Blass, Friedrich. “Ein griechischer Papyrus in Wien.” Philologus 41 (1882): 746-751.

Crisci, E. Per Uno Studio Paleografico E Bibliologico Dei Più Antichi Libri Greci. Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia I. Firenze: Istituto Papirologico, 2001, p. 293.

Gerstinger, Hans. “Aus der Wiener Papyrussammlung.” Wiener Studien: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie und Patristik 44 (1925): 218.

Jacob, Alfred. “Le tracé de la plus ancienne écriture onciale.” École Pratique des Hautes Études. Section des sciences historiques et philologiques. Annuaire 1906: 6.

Jahresberichte des Franz-Josephs-Gymnasiums in Wien 11 (1885), p. 4-9, no. 1.

Kenyon, Frederic G. The Palaeography of Greek Papyri. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1899.

Mahaffy, John P. The Flinders Petrie Papyri: With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index. Vol. 1. Dublin: Acad. House, 1891.

Montevecchi, Orsolina. La Papirologia. Turin: Vita e Pensiero, 1973.

Petrettini, Giovanni. Papiri greco-egizi ed altri greci monumenti dell’ l. R. Musei di Corte. Vienna: Stamperia di Antonio Strauss, 1826, 1-9.

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1931, p. 177-178, no. 40.

Preisigke, Friedrich. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 1. (SB I). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1915, no. 5103.

Rowlandson, Jane. Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 63, no. 37.

Schubart, Wilhelm. Griechische Paläographie. München: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1925.

Seider, Richard. Paläographie der griechischen Papyri. Vol. 3. Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1990, p. 142.

Sethe, Kurt. “Sarapis und die sogenannten katochoi des Sarapis.” Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (1913).

Thompson, Edward M. Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1893.

Wessely, Carl. Studien Zur Palaeographie Und Papyruskunde 14 (1914): 1, no. 1.

Wilcken, Ulrich. Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit. Vol. 1. Berlin/Leipzig: De Gruyter, 1927.

Zdiarsky, Angelika. Orakelsprüche, Magie und Horoskope. Wie Ägypten in die Zukunft sah. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2015, p. 87, no. 15.

Zdiarsky, Angelika. Wegezur Unsterblichkeit. Altägyptischer Totenkult und Jenseitsglaube. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2013, p. 45-53.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 280, no. 40.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

65797

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

40

 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 (24/8/2020); ST (3/9/2020); KD (9/9/2020); KD (8/9/2021); KD (10/7/2024)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M773," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m773. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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