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KYPRIANOS M804

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

PGM LXXVII
GEMF 12
P. Harris I 55
P. Harris 1 55
Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library P. Harris 184 f

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. ll.1-24: Ritual for revelation/divination
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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 – 200
Date notes:

GEMF dating (11/7/2019). 2nd century according to Powell 1936; p. 37, Preisendanz and Henrichs 1974: p. 206. 3rd century CE according to Orsini (private communication recorded on TM 12/10/2020).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Sheet (?)
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 20 Width: 7.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Jordan 2002; p. 28.
Folding pattern:

Some signs of horizontal creases, but unclear (KD 12/10/2020).
State of preservation:

Complete, some damage.
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:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library
Collection History:

No acquisition information; likely purchased in Egypt and donated to the library by J. Rendel Harris (KD 12/10/2020).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 3613
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Faraone, C. A. and Torallas Tovar, S. “GEMF 12 (PGM LXXVII).” In Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar, vol. 1, 2022, p. 47–48, no. 12.

Jordan, David. “Two Papyri with Formulae for Divination”, in Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World, edited by Paul Mirecki and Marvin Meyer. Leiden; Brill, 2002, p. 28-35, no. 2.

Powell, J. Enoch. The Rendel Harris papyri of Woodbrooke College, Birmingham (P. Harris I). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936, p. 37-38, no. 55.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Albert Henrichs. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, vol. 2, p. 206, no. 77.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 298, no. 77.
General:

Eitrem, Samson. “Varia, 81,” Symbolae Osloenses 17 (1937): 103-104.

Rahlfs, Alfred, and Detlef Fraenkel Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen aufgestellt. Die Überlieferung biz zum VIII. Jahrhundert. Vol. 1.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 45.

Trismegistos ID:

63392

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

77

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 12 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

1076

 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 (11/3/2019); KD (12/10/2020)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M804," 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-m804. Accessed on 21/10/2026
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