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KYPRIANOS M827

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

PGM CVI
SM 10
SB XIV 11493
SB 14 11493
Berlin, Staatliche Museen P. 21165
P. Berol. 21165

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. 1-10: Applied amulet to protect Touthous, son of Sara, from fever (healing/protection)

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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. 201 – 400
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 26); TM (21/6/2020).

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published

Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_21165_R_4_001.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 6 Width: 23.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

SM I, p. 26.

Folding pattern:

7 vertical and 3 horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Complete with some damage. Edges are damaged on all sides. 0.5 cm of free space to the left of the text and 0.5 cm free space below it.

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 (↓). 10 lines. Drawing of ouroboros on the middle-left.

Hand:

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: 49)
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/04371/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 26-29, no. 10.

Bevilacqua, Gabriella, Scrittura e magia. Un repertorio di oggetti iscritti della magia greco-romana. Opuscula epigraphica 12. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2010, p. 48-49.

Brashear, William M. “Vier Berliner Zaubertexte. Ein Amulett gegen Fieber.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 17 (1975): 27-30, no. 2.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 14. (SB XIV). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1981, no. 11493.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 310-311, no. 106.


General:

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen Verlag, 1992, p. 245, ViP 171.

Ioannidou, H. Grace. Berliner Klassikertexte. Catalogue of Greek and Latin Literary Papyri in Berlin. Vol. 9. Mainz am Rhein: von zabern, 1996, no. 68.


Trismegistos ID:

64270
30835

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

106

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

10

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

06031.000

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:

ST (21/6/2020); ST (11/7/2020); KD (15/9/2020)


How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M827," 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-m827. Accessed on 02/09/2026
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