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KYPRIANOS M791

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PGM LXIII
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 323

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.1-4: Recipe for unclear purposes
2. Ro ll. 3-7: Formula for removing pain in the breast (healing)
3. Ro ll. 8-14: To make woman reveal name of man that she loves
4. Ro ll. 15-26: Recipe for unclear purposes, includes kharaktēres
5. Ro ll. 27-28: Contraceptive recipe (healing)
6. Ro ll. 29-31: Contraceptive recipe (healing)

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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. 101 – 300
Date notes:

GEMF (27/8/2020); Preisendanz (1931: p. 196); TM (27/8/2020).

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

Published.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/dtl/552196

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 18 Width: 10 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Lower margin is 4cm high. Blank space of 1mm to the left column., 2 mm space to the right.

Folding pattern:

4 vertical creases.

State of preservation:

Fragmentary, bottom, left and right margins preserved. Very damaged by worms.

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 (→). 31 lines. 21-23 letters per line (GEMF).

Hand:

Informal round, bilinear

Findspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek

Collection History:

Acquired in 1887 (Preisendanz 1931: p. 196.).

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/RZ00002488

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2 (2nd ed). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 196-197, no. 63.

Körte, Alfred. “Literarische Texte mit Ausschluss der Christlichen.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und Verwandte Gebiete 11 (1935): 281, no. 841.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 294-295, no. 63.


General:

Gerstinger, Hans et al. “Griechische literarische Papyri I.” in Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien. Vol. 1. Wien: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, 1932, no. 28a.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 248, ViP 216.

Maltomini, Franco. “Due contraccettivi magici da non usare”. in Vincenzo Di Benedetto: il filologo e la fatica della conoscenza, edited by L. di Vasto (Castrovillari: Ass. It. Cult. Castrovillari, 2017): 183-188.

Maltomini, Franco. “Note al testo di alcuni papiri magici viennesi”. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 207 (2018): 115-121.

Palme, B. “Kat.-Nr. 29: Zaubermittel gegen Liebesangelegenheiten.” In Orakelsprüche, Magie und Horoskope. Wie Ägypten in die Zukunft sah, edited by Angelika Zdiarsky. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2015, p. 105.


Trismegistos ID:

63932

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

63

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 29 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

06008.000

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 (14/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M791," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m791. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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