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KYPRIANOS M793

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PGM LXV
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 29272

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

Magical (formulary)
Medical (recipes)

Contents:

1. Ro l. 1: Lost recipe
2. Ro ll. 2-4: Instructions for healing/protecting against quartan fever
3. Ro ll. 5-6: Recipe to prevent liquid from going sour
4. Vo l. 1: Lost recipe
5. Vo ll. 2-5: To prevent/aid pregnancy (healing)
6. Vo ll. 5-6: Amulet to be used for healing/protection against headaches using characters
7. Vo ll. 7-8: Lost recipe

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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. 501 – 700
Date notes:

6th-7th century ccording to Preisendanz 1931: p. 197 and TM (25/3/2019).

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/dtl/552183

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 10 Width: 13.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Col. website (9/14/2020)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary. Right margin apparently preserved for recto.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each, recto (→) and verso (↓). 6 surviving lines recto, 8 surviving lines verso.

Hand:

Different hands on recto and verso (Preidendanz 1931: p. 197).

Findspot:

Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2157)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2157)
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/RZ00002487

Notes/Discussion:

PGM only includes recipes 5 and 6.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Gerstinger, Hans, Hans Oellacher, and Kurt Vogel et al. “Griechische literarische Papyri I.” in Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien. Vol. 1. Wien: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, 1932, no. 28c and 30.

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2 (2nd ed). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 197, no. 65.

Körte, Alfred. “Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 11 (1935): 281, no. 842.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 296, no. 56.


General:

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

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


Trismegistos ID:

65252

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

65

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

06009.000

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 (25/3/2019); ST (28/8/2020); KD (14/9/2020); ST (17/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M793," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m793. Accessed on 27/06/2025

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