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KYPRIANOS M792

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PGM LXIV
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 29273
IMPER N.S. 1 28 b
P. Vindob. G 29273

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. 1-10: Love spell
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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. 301 – 400
Date notes:

Preisendanz (1931: p. 197); TM (8/6/2020)
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://viewer.onb.ac.at/10212822/

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 5.5 Width: 6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Preisendanz (1931: p. 197)
Folding pattern:

2 (?) horizontal creases.
State of preservation:

Fragmentary.
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, 10 lines with a drawing to the left.
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:
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/RZ00004815

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2 (2nd ed). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 197, no. 64.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 295, no. 64.
General:

Gerstinger, Hans et al. “Griechische literarische Papyri.” in Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien. Vol. 1. Wien: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, 1932, no. 28b and 29.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 248, ViP 220.

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

Trismegistos ID:

64518

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

64

 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:

ST (8/6/2020); ST (11/6/2020); KD (19/6/2020); EL (29/7/2020)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M792," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m792. Accessed on 21/10/2026
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