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KYPRIANOS M844

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PGM XVIIb
Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale P. gr. 1179

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Magical (formulary)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro: Accounts (II CE; unpublished)

Re-use:

2. Vo ll.1-23: Hymn to Hermes for divination.
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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. 101 – 300
Date notes:

GEMF dating (11/7/2019).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Roll (?)
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 21 Width: 10 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Width varies from 5.5-10 cm (PGM II p. 139).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary; upper and lower margins preserved, sides lost. Two fragments.
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 surviving column verso (↓) (magical re-use), 23 lines. 1 column recto (→), original use.
Hand:

Findspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase:

Cairo, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2740)
Writingspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale
Collection History:

Purchased through Dr Borchhardt in Cairo prior to 1903 (Plasberg 1903: p. 208).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 322
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Heitsch, Ernst, Die griechischen Dichterfragmente der römischen Kaiserzeit 1. Göttingen: Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, 1961, 186 no. LIX 8.

Heitsch, Ernst. “Zu den Zauberhymnen,” Philologus 103 (1959): 223-236.

Plasberg, O.”Straßburger Anekdota,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 2 (1903): 208-217 no. III.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Albert Henrichs. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1973–1974, p. 139-140, 249, hymns 15-16.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 254, no. 17b.
General:

Tissi, Lucia Maddalena. “L’innologia magica: per una puntualizzazione tassonomica,” in Écrire la magie dans l’antiquité, edited by Magali de Haro Sanchez (Liège: resses Universitaires de Liège, 2015) (Papyrologica Leodiensia 5), p. 151-172.

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “Notes on Magical Handbooks.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 215 (2020): p. 48-49.

Trismegistos ID:

64226
873046

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

17b

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 19 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

01870.000
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:

KD (16/5/2019); KD (24/9/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M844," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m844. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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