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KYPRIANOS M840

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

PGM CXXIV
Milan, Università Statale 1251
SM 97

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-6: Favour procedure
2. Ro ll. 7-9: Curse
3. Ro ll. 10-33: Curse
4. Vo ll.1-10: Unclear

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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. 401 – 600
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 253); GEMF (11/7/2019)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A17
Archive name: Multilingual Library
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Rotulus

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 24 Width: 14.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Damaged, complete at the bottom.

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):

1 column each recto (↓) and verso (→). Verso written at 180 degrees to recto.

Hand:

Findspot:

Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2713)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2713)
Present Location:

Milan, Università Statale

Collection History:

Previously Pisa, Università P. Cazzaniga 7.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 229
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 252-262, no. 97.

Maltomini, Franco. “I papiri greci.” Studi classici e orientali 29 (1979): p. 94-112, no. 7.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 321, no. 124.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

65848

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

124

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

97

GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 84 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 (16/5/2019); KD (24/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M840," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m840. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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