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KYPRIANOS M895

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

SM 83
P. Lond. Lit. 171
SM II 83
London, British Library Pap 2558

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

Magical (formulary)
Documentary (account ?)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro: Documentary text (account or property list)

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-4: To have fun with a concubine (?) (erotic)
3. Vo ll. 5-9: To be able to copulate a lot

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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:

TM (11/12/2020); Milne 1927: p. 137.

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

Published.

Image: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=papyrus_2558_f001r

Form:

Roll (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 14.5 Width: 9.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (11/12/2020); Milne 1927: p. 137.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, damaged.

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 verso (→), 9 lines. Documentary text on recto, 9 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

London, British Library

Collection History:

Purchased from maurice Nahman with a lot of Papyri 2556-2647 in November 1924. Purchase arranged by Francis Willey Kelsey (Collection website 11/12/2020).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 192
Collection website: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_2558

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 170-171, no. 83.

Milne, Herbert J. M. Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum. London: Trustees, 1927, p. 137, no. 171.


Translations:
General:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1921-192. London: British Museum 1950, p. 369.

Gazza, Vittorino. “Prescrizioni mediche nei papiri dell’Egitto Greco-romano.” Aegyptus 35 (1955): 86-110.

Marganne, Marie-Hélène. Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1981, no. 107.


Trismegistos ID:

64091

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

83

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

02405.000

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); MPS (11/12/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M895," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m895. Accessed on 04/05/2025

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