Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Oxy. LVIII 3931 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro col. 1 ll.1-13: To make a person invisible. |
| Language(s): | Greek |
| Script(s): | Greek |
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| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
251 – 350 |
| Date notes: | Phillips (2009: p. 69). |
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Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_LVIII_3931_Magic/21176815 |
| Form: | Roll |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 9.5 | Width: 20 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Phillips (2009: p. 69). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, only left and upper margin of recto intact. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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3 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 2 surviving columns recto (→), 13 surviving lines each; 1 column verso (↓), 2 lines and a drawing. |
| Hand: | Verso hand clumsier, but may be written by same scribe (GEMF). |
| Findspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2722) |
| Present Location: | Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms |
| Collection History: | Acquired from the Egypt Exploration Fund. |
| Trismegistos collection:
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_LVIII_3931_Magic/21176815 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Apparently the beginning of a roll, with the protocollon on the left (GEMF). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: |
★ Faraone, C. A. and Torallas Tovar, S. “GEMF 47 (P.Oxy. LVIII 3931).” In Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar, vol. 1, 2022, p. 473–475, no. 47. |
| Translations: |
Janowski, Bernd, and Gernot Wilhelm (eds.). Omina, Orakel, Rituale und Beschwörungen. Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Neue Folge. Vol. 4. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008. |
| General: |
Keenan, James G. “[Book Review] The Oxyrnhychus Papyri, Volume LVIII, edited with translations and endnotes by J.R. Rea. Graeco-Roman Memoirs, No. 78 […].” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 29 (1992): 213. |
| Trismegistos ID: |
30769 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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47 | ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | KD (21/5/2019); ST (9/1/2021); KD (17/2/2021) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M910," 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-m910. Accessed on 20/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.