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KYPRIANOS M806

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PGM LXXXI
P. Oxy. XII 1566
Brussels, Musées Royaux E 5997

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

Magical (formulary ?)
Documentary (letter ?)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro: Letter (?)
2. Vo: Address (traces)

Re-use:

3. Ro ll.1-10: Invocation of Helios, perhaps for protection.
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:

Phrase in Egyptian, transliterated into Greek, in ll. 5-6.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 301 – 400
Date notes:

Preidendanz and Henrichs 1974: p. 208.
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 23.5 Width: 14.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Preisendanz and Henrichs 1973-1974; p. 208.
Folding pattern:

1 horizontal crease, 5 (?) vertical creases.
State of preservation:

Complete, some damage along folds and on left.
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; one line on verso, but probably from original use. Original document seems to have been washed away,
Hand:

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

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

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Brussels, Musées Royaux
Collection History:

Found in situ by the Egypt Exploration Society.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 64
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Grenfell, Bernard P., and Athur S. Hunt. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 12 (P. Oxy XII). London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1915, p. 278, no. 1566.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Albert Henrichs. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1973–1974, vol. 2, p. 208, no. LXXXI.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 299, no. 81.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

64393

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

81

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 65 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

1067

 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 (17/4/2019); KD (30/6/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M806," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m806. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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