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KYPRIANOS M794

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PGM LXVII
Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE 60140

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. 1-24: Love spell (? or curse?)
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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. 251 – 400
Date notes:

GEMF; 201-400 (Koenen 1971: p. 201).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 16 Width: 15 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Fr. 1: 7 x 8; fr. 2: 7.3 x 6; fr. 3: 5 x 2.5 ; fr. 4: 5.4 x 4.3; fr. 5: 4.5 x 3.5.
Folding pattern:

4 vertical folds?
State of preservation:

Fragmentary. Divided into 5 fragments. Top and bottom margins lost.
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. 24 lines.
Hand:

Informal

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 73
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2 (2nd ed). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 199-200, no. 67.

Koenen, Ludwig. “Formular eines Liebeszaubers,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 8 (1971): 199-206.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 296, no. 67.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

63028

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

67

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 50 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 (25/3/2019); ST (28/8/2020); KD (14/9/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M794," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m794. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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