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KYPRIANOS M822

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

PGM CI
P. Köln. inv. 3323a
Cologne, Papyrussammlung P. 3323

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.1-53: Applied love spell to bind Euphemia, daughter of Dorothea, for Theon, son of Proechia.

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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. 401 – 500
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 162); TM (30/7/2020).

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

Published

Image: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/DS_d1e34157/img/03323_a_d/orig/P.inv.%2003323r.jpg

Form:

Rotulus

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 55 Width: 22.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Col. website (14/9/2020).

Folding pattern:

10 (?) horizontal , 3 (?) vertical creases.

State of preservation:

Complete. Blank sheet was cut off from the bottom of the larger one. When in tact, the full sheet would have had a length of 65 cm or more.

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):

Written transversa charta, 1 column on recto (↓).

Hand:

Findspot:

Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1271)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1271)
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/tm92236

Notes/Discussion:

Found inside a sealed clay pot with pair of embracing wax effigies (Cologne 3323c) and blank sheet of papyrus (3323b) (images of both on col. website).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 162-173, no. 45.

Wortmann, Dierk. “Das Blut des Seth.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 2 (1968): 227-230.

Wortmann, Dierk. “Neue Magische Texte.” Bonner Jahrbücher 168 (1968): 85-102, no. 4.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 307-309, no. 101.

Moke, David F. Eroticism in the Greek Magical Papyri. Selected Studies. Vol. 1. Minnesota: University of Minnesota, 1975, p. 375-378.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

92236

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

101

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

45

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
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

112

To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (12/3/2019); ST (30/7/2020); KD (14/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M822," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m822. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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