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KYPRIANOS M846

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PGM XVIIIb
BGU 3.956

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. 1-11: Amulet against fever for Dionusos or Anus son of Heraclia
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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. 301 – 500
Date notes:

TM (19/102020); 3rd century (BGU III: p. 280); 3rd-4th century (Preisendanz 1974: p. 140).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

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

Formed a cylinder of 2 cm of length and 1 cm in diameter (Wilcken 1901: p. 420-421).
Folding pattern:

Found bound with a red string (TM 19/10/2020; BGU III: p. 280; Wilcken 1901: p. 420-421).
State of preservation:

Complete. Now lost.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto, written with fibers (?) (Collection website 19/10/2020). 10 lines written in “wing formation,” 1 long line of text surrounding the formation two or three times (Wilcken 1901: p. 421).
Hand:

Cursive (BGU III: p. 280)

Findspot:

Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina)

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 801)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Lost in a fire in Hamburg, spring 1899, the same year it was excavated (Collection website 19/10/2020; Wilcken 1901: p. 420-421).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/00232/

Notes/Discussion:

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Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 140-141, no. 18b.

Wilcken, Ulrich. “Heidnisches und Christliches aus Ägypten.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 1 (1901): p. 420-427.

Wilcken, Ulrich. In Ägyptische Urkunden aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Griechische Urkunden. Vol. 3. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1903, p. 280, no. 956.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 255, PGM XVIII b.
General:

Wilcken, Ulrich. “Die Berliner Papyrusgrabung in Herakleopolis Magna.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 2 (1903): p. 333f.

Trismegistos ID:

65802

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

18b

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum 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

06018.000
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:

MPS (19/10/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M846," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m846. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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