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KYPRIANOS M824

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

PGM CIII
GEMF 7
Athens, Archaeological Society number unknown

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro col. 1 ll. 1-6: Unclear (very fragmentary)
2. Ro col. 2 ll.1-18: Love spell
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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. 1 – 100
Date notes:

GEMF dating; editor notes that late I BCE date also possible.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Roll
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 12 Width: 7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary. Only bottom margin survives.
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 surviving columns on recto (→), 6 and 18 surviving lines. Intercolumnium of 2-3 cm.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Athens, Archaeological Society
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 14
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 128-131, no. 73.

★ Maltomini, F. “GEMF 7 (PGM CIII, SM II 73).” In Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar, vol. 1, 2022, p. 31–32, no. 7.

Petropoulos, Georgios A. Papyri Societatis Archaeologicae Atheniensis, edited by G.A. Petropoulos. Athens: Academia scientiarum Atheniensis, 1939, no. 70.

Pintaudi, Rosario (ed.), Miscellanea papyrologica (Pap. Flor. 7). Florence: Gonelli, 1980, p. 169-172. [includes photograph]
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 310, no. 103.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

65843

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

103

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

73

 GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 7 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 To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (12/3/2019); KD (29/9/2020)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M824," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m824. Accessed on 21/10/2026
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