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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
GEMF 35

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://archive.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/papyri/vol56/pages/3834.htm

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: https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_LVI_3834_Magical_Formulas/21176482?file=37549948

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.

★ Maltomini, F. “GEMF 35 (SM II 79, P.Oxy. LVI 3834).” In Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar, vol. 1, 2022, p. 431–433, no. 35.
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

06011.000
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:

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

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M894," 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-m894. Accessed on 20/10/2026
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