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KYPRIANOS M855

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PGM XXXe
SB 26 16731
P.Berol. Inv. Nr. 13300
Berlin, Staatliche Museen P. 13300
P. Berol. 13300

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Oracle ticket
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-8: Oracle ticket
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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 – 200
Date notes:

TM (22/10/2020); Schubart 1931: p. 111.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/03675/

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 5.3 Width: 5.8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Estimate based on image (MPS).
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:

Findspot:

Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh)

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

Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh)

(TM places ID: 2157)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Excavations of Friedrich Zucker in Dimê 1909-1910 (Collection website 22/10/2020).
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/03675/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

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

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 26. (SB XXVI). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006, no. 16731.

Schubart, Wilheilm. “Orakelfragen.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 76 (1931): p. 111, no. 7.

Totti, Maria. Ausgewählte Texte der Isis- und Sarapis-Religion. Subsidia epigraphica 12. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagbuchshandlung, 1985, p. 133, no. 54 I.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

88400

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

30e

 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 (22/10/2020)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M855," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m855. Accessed on 21/10/2026
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