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KYPRIANOS M832

Sigla:

PGM CXI
St Louis, Washington University 139
GEMF 1

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Magical (formulary ?) Mythological (cosmogony ?)
Contents:	1. Ro ll.1-15: Cosmogony? Instructions for creating images?
	See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):	Greek
Script(s):	Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	-200 – -101
Date notes:	GEMF; Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 91)
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:	Published
Image:

Form:	Sheet (?)
Material:	Papyrus

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 16

Width: 10.5

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:	Fragmentary, broken on all sides; part of top margin preserved.
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.	1
Pages/Columns (notes):	1 column recto (→), 15 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:	Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: )
Place of purchase:	(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:	Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: )
Present Location:	St Louis, Washington University
Collection History:	Acquired as part of subscription to Egypt Exploration Society, from region of Oxyrhynchus (col. website 29/9/2020).
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.	315
Collection website:	http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/8039

Notes/Discussion:

Perhaps a late Egyptian cosmogony describing the creation of the universe by Kneph, translated into Greek.

Bibiliography

Editions:	Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 91-94, no. 70. ★ Faraone, C. A. and Torallas Tovar, S. “GEMF 1 (PGM CXI, SM II 70).” In Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar, vol. 1, 2022, p. 3–4, no. 1. Maresch, Klaus and Zola M. Packman. Papyri from the Washington University Collection, St. Louis, Missouri, Part II. Opladen: Springer, 1990, no. 74. Packman, Zola M. “Three Magical Texts from the Washington University Collection,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 13.4 (1976) 177-179.
Translations:	Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 313, no. 111. Jördens, Andrea. “Fragment eines kosmologisches Textes,” in Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Neue Folge 8: Weisheitstexte, Mythen und Epen, edited by Bernd Janowski and Daniel Schwemer. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2015, p. 480.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

65664

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae	111	SM: Supplementum Magicum	70	GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	1	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”		AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte		CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database		Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires		Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"		TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum		To Zodion:

Edit History:

KD (15/5/2019); KD (24/9/2020); KD (29/9/2020)

How to cite:

[Editor names]. "KYP M832," 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-m832. Accessed on 21/10/2026
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