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KYPRIANOS M828

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

PGM CVII
SM 44
SB XIV 11535
SB 14 11535
Cologne, Papyrussammlung P. 5512

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. 1-19: Applied love spell to bring Tapias, daughter of Demetria, to Achillas, son of Helene

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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. 157); TM (21/6/2020).

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_d1e292360/img/05512/orig/PK5512r.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Cloth (linen)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 16.8 Width: 11.8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

1 and 2 cm from the right edge are two thick vertical stripes in the weave. Each consists of warp threads under a single weft.

Folding pattern:
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, 19 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
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/tm30844

Notes/Discussion:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990, p: 167) note that the scrap of linen on which the charm is written might have been part of the clothing, shroud or mummy-wrapping of the dead man invoked in the text, or might have been belonged to the ritual’s target.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 157-161, no. 44.

Daniel, Robert W. “Two Love-Charms.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 19 (1975): 255-264.

Bevilacqua, Gabriella, Scrittura e magia. Un repertorio di oggetti iscritti della magia greco-romana. Opuscula epigraphica 12. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2010, p. 51-52.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 14. (SB XIV). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1981, no. 11535.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 311, no. 107.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

30844

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

107

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

44

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 To Zodion:
Edit History:

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


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M828," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m828. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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