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KYPRIANOS M809

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PGM LXXXV
P.Harris 56
Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library P. Harris 184 b

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Literary (epigrams)
Contents:

1. Ro frg. A ll. 1-5: List of epigrams
2. Ro frg. B ll. 1-5: List of epigrams
3. Ro frg. C ll. 1-3: List of epigrams
4. Vo ll. 1-?: Few lines of a tragedy (?)
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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. -199 – 1
Date notes:

TM (23/10/2020)
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Roll
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 3.2 Width: 10.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Powell 1936: p. 38.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary; in 3 fragments.
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 recto (→), 1 column verso
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:
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:

Barigazzi, Adelmo. “Sopra Alcuni Nuovi Epigrammi Ellenistici.” Hermes 80.4 (1952): 494-496.

Kannicht, Richard, and Bruno Snell. Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta (TrGF). Vol. 2. Göttingen: Vanderhoeck and Ruprecht, 1981, p. 287, no. 696.

Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, and Peter J. Parsons. Supplementum hellenisticum.De Gruyter, 1983, p. 117 (?), no. 981.

Powell, J. Enoch. The Rendel Harris papyri of Woodbrooke College, Birmingham (P. Harris I). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936, p. 38, no. 56.

Roberts, Colin H. Journal of Juristic Papyrology 4 (1950), p. 215-217.

Webster, T.B.L. “Addendum to Rendel Harris Papyri No 56.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 5 (1951): p. 237.
Translations:
General:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. xv.

Hombert, M. Chronique d’Egypte 26 (1951): p. 415-416.

Trismegistos ID:

65647

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

85

 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

01718.100
01602.000
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:

MPS (22/10/2020); MPS (23/10/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M809," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m809. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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