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KYPRIANOS M952

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

P. Oxy. LXXXII 5311
P. Oxy. 82 5311
Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms 12 1B.144/H(a)

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-9: Applied amulet for healing of Menas, son of Theonilla.

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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. 401 – 500
Date notes:

Maltomini (2016: p. 96); TM (21/1/2021).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A50
Archive name: Oxyrhynchus Astrological-Magical Archive
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_LXXXII_5311_Christian_Amulet/21186220?file=37563415

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 7.1 Width: 47 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Maltomini (2016: p. 96).

Folding pattern:

8 horizontal and 3 vertical creases.

State of preservation:

Complete.

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 recto (→). 9 lines.

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

Collection History:

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund.

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_LXXXII_5311_Christian_Amulet/21186220?file=37563415

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Maltomini, Franco, et al. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 82. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2016, p. 96-97, no. 5311.


Translations:
General:

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “An Overlooked Magical Formulary (P.Oxy. 3.433).” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 55 (2018): 197-198.


Trismegistos ID:

702436

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

ST (21/1/2021); ST (22/1/2021); KD (26/2/2021)


How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M952," 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-m952. Accessed on 20/10/2026
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