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KYPRIANOS M898

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

SM 88
SM II 88
P. Oxy. inv. 72/65 (a)
Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms number unknown
P. Oxy. ined.

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll.1-5: Against erysipelas (healing)
2. Ro ll. 6-9: Against red eruption (healing)
3. Ro ll. 10-19: Unclear; invocation.
4. Vo ll. 1-13: Unclear.

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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. 301 – 400
Date notes:

Daniel and Maltomini 1992: p. 191.

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

Recto published, verso unpublished.

Image:

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 15 Width: 5.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel and Maltomini 1992: p. 191.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary Upper and lower margins preserved of recto, on verso only right margin preserved.

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):

2 surviving columns recto (→), 19 lines. 1 column verso (↓), in a different hand.

Hand:

Different hands on recto and verso.

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:

No acquisition information; perhaps excavated in Oxyrhynchus by B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt like most of the material from Oxyrhynchus in the Sackler Library (KD 9/12/2020).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 264
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 191-193, no. 88

Maas, Paul. “The Philinna Papyrus”, Journal of Hellenic Studies 62 (1942): p. 36-37.


Translations:
General:

Faraone, Christopher A. “Handbooks and Anthologies: The Collection of Greek and Egyptian Incantations in Late Hellenistic Egypt’” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 2.2 (2000): p. 201-202.

Henrichs, A. “Zum Text einiger Zauberpapyri”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 6 (1970): p. 204-209.

Lehnus, L. “Maas e Filinna”, Quaderni di storia 66 (2007) 155-162.

Marganne, Marie-Hélène. Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1981, no. 130.

Merkelbach, Reinhold. “Literarische Texte unter Ausschluss der Christlichen”, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 16 (1958): p. 86.

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “Notes on Magical Handbooks.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 215 (2020): p. 44-49.


Trismegistos ID:

64483

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

88

GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 45 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

1872

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 (18/5/2019); KD (9/12/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M898," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m898. Accessed on 10/11/2024

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