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KYPRIANOS M834

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

PGM CXV
SM 12
SB XIV 12115
SB 14 12115
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 86.3.A
Previous: Budapest, Private collection Gaál without number

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. 1-7: Applied amulet to deliver Ammon from fever (healing)
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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. 251 – 350
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 33); 301-400 (TM 27/6/2020).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image: http://www2.szepmuveszeti.hu/talismans/images/object/9/large-3.jpg

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 5.6 Width: 13 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Complete on all sides. 2 smaller and 2 larger holes.
Folding pattern:

2 vertical and 3 horizontal creases.
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 (→). 7 lines.
Hand:

Semi-cursive.

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts
Collection History:

Previously property of Ernő Gaál (col. website 15/9/2020).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 401
Collection website: http://www2.szepmuveszeti.hu/talismans/cbd/9?title=amulet

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 33-34, no. 12.

Daniel, Robert W. “Some Φυλακτήρια.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 25 (1977): 153-154, no. 3.

Ritoók, Zsigmond. “Ein neuer griechischer Zauberpapyrus.” Acta antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 26 (1987): 433-456.

Ritoók, Zsigmond. “Egy új, görög nyelvű varázspapirusz.” Antik Tanulmányok. 22.1 (1975): 30-43.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 14. (SB XIV). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1983, no. 12115.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 314, no. 115.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

32951

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

115

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

12

 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

06023.000
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 (27/6/2020); ST (11/7/2020); KD (15/9/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M834," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m834. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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