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KYPRIANOS M894

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

P. Oxy. LVI 3834
SM 79
Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Oxy. 3834

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro col. 1 ll. 1-5: For conception, spoken over semen (healing)
2. Ro col. 1 ll. 6-11: Another (healing)
3. Ro col. 2 ll. 1-7 (ll. 12-18): For dream oracle (divination, binary oracle)
4. Ro col. 2 ll. 7-13 (ll. 19-25): To restrain anger
5. Ro col. 2 ll. 14-20 (ll. 26-32): For victory against legal adversary (curse)
6. Ro col. 2 ll. 21-22 (ll. 33-34): For fever (healing)

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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. 201 – 300
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 155).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=q-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-3834--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=search&d=HASHb9a231e5e8a7bc8cdccf28

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

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

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 155).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, some damage.

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

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

2 columns recto (→), col. 1 11 lines, col. 2 22 lines. Verso blank.

Hand:

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms

Collection History:
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 264
Collection website: http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=q-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-3834--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=search&d=HASHb9a231e5e8a7bc8cdccf28

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 155-160, no. 79.

Daniel, Robert W. “P. Oxy. 56 3834”, in Theœ Oxyrhynchus papyri 56 : [Nos. 3822 – 3875] edited by Revel A. Coles, Nikolaos Gonis, and Dirk Obbink, no. 3834.


Translations:
General:

Brashear, William M. “The Greek Magical Papyri: An Introduction and Survey; Annotated Bibliography (1928-1994).” In: Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, II.18.5. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 3380-3684.

Burnet, Régis. L’Egypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: Vie quotidienne. Paris: Pygmalion, 2003, p. 184.


Trismegistos ID:

64170

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

79

GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 35 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

6011

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 (17/5/2019); EL (2/12/2020); MPS (11/12/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M894," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m894. Accessed on 16/05/2024

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