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KYPRIANOS M852

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PGM XXXb
P. Rain. 26
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 7

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Oracle ticket
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-8: Oracle ticket with a question to Soknopaios about marriage
See all texts in this manuscript.

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. 6 – 6
Date notes:

April 26 6 (year 35 of the emperor, 1. Pachon: Preisendanz 1974: p. 57); (TM 26/10/2020)
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/1020E385

Form:

Sheet (?)
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 12.2 Width: 11.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (26/10/2020).
Folding pattern:
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 (→), 8 lines.
Hand:

Cursive.

Findspot:

Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh)

(TM places ID: 2157)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh) (?)

(TM places ID: 2157)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek
Collection History:

Previously in Vienna, Nationalbibliothek P. Rainer 26.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00010174

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Assante, Maria G. “Domande oracolari in greco: miglioramenti di lettura e riflessioni.” Analecta Papyrologica 16-17 (2004-2005): p. 100-102, no. 21.

Harrauer, Hermann. Handbuch der griechischen Paläographie. Textband. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2010, p. 250f, no. 67.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 156, no. 30b.

Wilcken, Ulrich. Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Vol. 1.2. Leipzig – Berlin: Teubner, 1912, p. 149-150, no. 122.

Wesesly, Carl. Papyrorum scripturae graecae specimina isagogica 12 (1900), p. 7, no. 26.
Translations:

Arzt-Grabner, Peter. 2. Korinther.Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014, p. 246.

Metzger, Hubert. Nachrichten aus dem Wüstensand : eine Sammlung von Papyruszeugnissen. Zürich: Artemis-Verlag, 1974, no. 72.

Palme, Bernhard. In Von Noricum nach Ägypten, edited by Karl Strobel. Klagenfurt: Mohorjeva Hermagoras Verlag, 2007, p. 205-206.

Rowlandson, Jane (ed.). Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt. A Sourcebook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998, 249b.

Specht, Edith. Alltägliches Altertum. Frankfurt am Main – Berlin – Bern – New York – Paris – Wien: Lang, 1998, p. 190-192, no. 6.
General:

Froschauer, Harald, and Harrauer, Hermann. Emanzipation am Nil. Frauleben und Frauenrecht in den Papyri. Nilus 11. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2005, p. 57, no. 30.

Kaiser, Anna. “Kat.-Nr. 8: Orakelfrage des Asklepiades.” In Orakelsprüche, Magie und Horoskope. Wie Ägypten in die Zukunft sah (Nilus 22), edited by Angelika Zdiarsky. Wien 2015, p. 81, no. 8.

Schubart, Wilhelm. “Die Frau im griechisch-römischen Ägypten.” Internationale Monatsschrift für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Technik, Vol. 10, 1916, p. 1503-1538.

Totti, Maria. Ausgewählte Texte der Isis- und Sarapis-Religion. Subsidia epigraphica 12. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagbuchshandlung, 1985, no. 51.

https://aquila.zaw.uni-heidelberg.de/bl/hgv/15150

Trismegistos ID:

15150

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

30b

 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
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 (26/10/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M852," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m852. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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