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KYPRIANOS M818

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

PGM XCVII
SM II 78
Cologne, Papyrussammlung P. 1886

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Col. 1 ll. 1-6: Unclear (healing?)
2. Col. 1 ll. 7-11: Unclear (healing?)
3. Col. 2 ll. 1-2: Unclear (healing?)
4. Col. 2 ll. 3-6: Unclear (healing?)
5. Col. 2 ll. 7-9: Unclear (healing?)
6. Col. 2 ll. 10-12: Unclear (healing?)
7. Col. 2 ll. 13-14: Unclear (healing?)
8. Col. 2 ll. 15-18: Against every illness (healing)

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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 – 300
Date notes:

Second to third century CE (GEMF; Daniel & Maltomini 1992: 151; Wortmann 1968: p. 109).

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

Published.

Image: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/Magie/bilder/1886r.jpg

Form:

Roll (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 15 Width: 9.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel & Maltomini 1992: 151.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary. Upper margin of 3 cm preserved, all other sides lost.

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 recto (→). Column size from GEMF. Intercolumnium of 2.5 cm.

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:

Cologne, Papyrussammlung

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 172
Collection website: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/tm65845

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 151-154, no. 78.

Wortmann, Dierk. “Neue Magische Texte.” Bonner Jahrbücher 168 (1968): 109-111, no. 13


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 306-307, no. 97.


General:

Maltomini, Franco. “Osservazioni al testo di alcuni papiri magici greci II”, Civiltà classica e cristiana 1 (1980): p. 176.


Trismegistos ID:

65845

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

97

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

78

GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 24 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

06013.000

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:

KD (17/4/2019); KD (30/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M818," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m818. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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