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KYPRIANOS M797

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

PGM LXX
Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 7
P. Mich III 154
P. Mich 3 154

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

Magical (formulary)
Documentary (accounts)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro: Accounts

Re-use:

2. Vo col. 1, ll. 1-4: Favour, victory charm for protection and to dissolve spells
3. Vo col. 1, ll. 4-25: Charm of Hecate for protection and curse of sleeplessness
4. Vo col. 2, ll. 26-51: Formula against fear and spells

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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 – 350
Date notes:

Preisendanz (1974: p. 202), 201-400 (GEMF); TM (31/8/2020).

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

Partially published

Image: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/image/apis/X-3066/7V.TIF/full/large/0/native.jpg

Form:

Roll

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 15.2 Width: 14.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:

Creases suggestive of folding.

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.

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

2 columns survive on the verso (↓, magical re-use), remains of 2 columns on the recto containing the accounts (→, not counted here). 25 surviving lines verso column 1, 21 surv iving lines column 2.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 12
Collection website: http://www.papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3066

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bonner, Campbell. Papyri in the University of Michigan Collection. Vol. 3. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1936, no. 154.

Jordan, David R. “Notes on Two Michigan Magical Papyri.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 136 (2001): 186-193, no. 2.

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2 (2nd ed). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 202-203, no. 70.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 257, no. 56.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

64326

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

70

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 56 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 (26/3/2019); ST (31/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M797," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m797. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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