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KYPRIANOS M892

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

P. Palau Rib. inv. 3
SM 69
SM II 69
Barcelona, Palau-Ribes 3

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

Magical (unclear) (?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-3: Drawing of Seth with short text (his attributes).
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. 101 – 400
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini 1992: p. 86; 1st century BCE – 1st century CE (TM 14/12/2020); late 1st cenutry BCE – early 2nd century CE (Bartina 1967)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 13 Width: 9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel & Maltomini 1992: p. 86.
Folding pattern:

4 horizontal creases, no vertical (folded horizontally into 5 sections; Michailides 1952: p. 45).
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, 3 lines of text next to image.
Hand:

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

Barcelona, Palau-Ribes
Collection History:

Michailides reports that this papyrus, together with others written in Greek and Coptic, have been brought to him from the Fayum by Egyptian fellahs. This papyrus was “petrified” and covered with silt and dirt (Michailides 1952: p. 45). Previously belonged to the private collection of Michailides.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 304
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Drawing of Seth. The firs letters of each line from the Greek name of Seth (ΣΗΘ) – acrostic.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bartina, Sebastián. “Set o el horrendo y gruñidor jabalí verrugoso.” Studia Papyrologica 6 (1967): 109-121.

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 86-87, no. 69.

Michailides, G. “Papyrus contenant un dessin du dieu Seth à tête d’âne.” Aegyptus 32.1 (1952): 45-53.

O’Callagan, José. Papiros literarios griegos del fondo. Palau-Ribes. Barcelona: Institut de Teologia Fonamental, 1993, no. 39.
Translations:
General:

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Vol. I. Wien, Holzhausen, 1992, p. 246, no. 207.

Trismegistos ID:

63186

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

69

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Edit History:

MPS (14/12/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M892," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m892. Accessed on 26/06/2025

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