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KYPRIANOS M779

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

PGM XLVI
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 332 + P. Rainer 12

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro, ll: 1-3: “To make the god speak” (ritual of apparition, divination ?)
2. Ro, ll: 4-7: Curse for silencing and subjugation (?) and a drawing.

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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. 180); TM (25/8/2020); Collection Website (19/3/2019); GEMF (11/7/2019).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/dtl/4494967

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 12.7 Width: 7.8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Col. website (9/9/2020).

Folding pattern:

3 vertical creases, perhaps an indication of rolling as a roll.

State of preservation:

Fragmentary, damage at all edges, top preserved (?).

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 (→), 7 surviving 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:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00010484

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1931, p. 180, no. 46.

Wessely, Carl. Neue griechische Zauberpapyri. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Classe 42.2. Wien: Denkschr. Wien. Akad., 1893, p. 72.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 282, no. 46.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

64775

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

46

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 83 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 (19/3/2019); ST (25/8/2020); KD (11/9/2020); MPS (25/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M779," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m779. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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