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KYPRIANOS M821

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

PGM C
SM 20
Cologne, Papyrussammlung P. 2861

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-7: Amulet to heal Thaesas, includes kharaktēres.

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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. 351 – 500
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 55); 351-600 (TM 20/6/2020).

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/2861r.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 12 Width: 18.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Col. website (14/9/2020)

Folding pattern:

3 vertical and 3 horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Complete.

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 (→), 7 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: )
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/tm64875

Notes/Discussion:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990, p: 55) note that the mirror images of the ink show that the papyrus was first folded vertically down the middle. Because of the mirror images, the first editor mistakenly described the papyrus as a palimpsest.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 55-57, no. 20.

Wortmann, Dierk. “Neue Magische Texte.” Bonner Jahrbücher 168 (1968): 102-104, no. 8.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 307, no. 100.


General:

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen Verlag, 1992, p. 245, ViP 179.


Trismegistos ID:

64875

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

100

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

20

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

6052

Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires

902

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

61

TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

ST (20/6/2020); ST (11/7/2020); KD (14/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M821," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m821. Accessed on 15/05/2024

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