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KYPRIANOS M790

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

PGM LX
Brussels, Musées Royaux E 6390 + E 6391

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. 1-6: Unclear magical text, includes voces magicae and characters.

See all texts in this manuscript.

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. 501 – 600
Date notes:

Preisendanz 1974: p. 188.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A44
Archive name: Monastery of Apa Apollo
State of edition:

Published, edition unsatisfactory.

Image:

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 8 Width: 10 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Preisendanz 1974: p. 188.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, several fragments.

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, 6 lines and image.

Hand:

Findspot:

Monastery of Apa Apollo, Bawit, Egypt

(TM places ID: 10454)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Monastery of Apa Apollo, Bawit, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 10454)
Present Location:

Brussels, Musées Royaux

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 64
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Préaux, Claire. “Égypte gréco-romaine.” Chronique d’Égypte 6.11 (1931): p. 137-140.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 188, no. 60.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 286, no. PGM 60.


General:

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen Verlag, 1992, p. 245, ViP 175.

Clackson, Sarah, and Alain Delattre. Papyrus grecs et coptes de Baouît conservés au Musée du Louvre: P. Louvre Bawit 1-83. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 2014: p. 160-161.


Trismegistos ID:

64997

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

60

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); MPS (17/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M790," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m790. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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