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KYPRIANOS M783

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

PGM LI
Leipzig, Universität 9, 418
P. Lips. Inv. 418

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

Magical (applied)
Letter to a god (?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-27: Applied judicial curse for Neilammon son of Tereus and his daughter Anychis and children against Etes, Hermes, Apelles and Harpocrates son of Tereus

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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. 201 – 300
Date notes:

Preisendanz (1931: p. 182); TM (27/8/2020).

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

Published

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Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 10 Width: 16.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Size of main piece; smaller fragment 4 (H) x 2.5 (W) cm.

Folding pattern:

6 vertical, 6 (?) horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Complete, with significant damage along creases, especially at the bottom.

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, 27 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase:

Oxyrhynchus

(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Leipzig, Universität

Collection History:

Acquired 29/9/1905 (col. website 27/11/2020).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 181
Collection website: https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/UBLPapyri_schrift_00002410

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1931, p. 182, no. 51.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 283, no. 51.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

64081

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

51

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 (22/3/2019); ST (27/8/2020); KD (11/9/2020); KD incorporared correction from James Cowey (27/11/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M783," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m783. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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