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Title Instructions for making animal-human figures
Principal Edition P.Wash.Univ. 2 74
translation 12669. Hans Dieter Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells. Second Edition., (Chicago London 1992). 313
Reference Edition
  • - 12729. Robert W. Daniel and Franco Maltomini eds., Supplementum Magicum. Vol. II., (Opladen 1992). 70
  • - 96044. Christopher A. Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar eds., Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, Vol. 1, (2022). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9650x69r1
Fragments St Louis, Washington University 139
Support Material papyrus
Date II - I v. Chr.
More from the period between 200 BCE and 1 BCE
Origin Found: Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Egypt); written: Egypt
More from Found: Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Egypt); written: Egypt
Form and Layout papyrus roll? (columns: 1, pagination: 0)
Genre magic
Culture religion
Religion Egyptian
Print Illustrations BASP 13 p.176
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 65664 [source]

Publications Suppl. Mag. 2 70 (1992) = P. Wash. Univ. 2 74 (1990) = Betz, The Greek magical papyri in translation p. 313 no. PGM 111 (1986)
Inv. no. St Louis, Washington University 139
Date BC 199 - 1
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[written]; Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[found]

DCLP transcription: 65664 [xml]

  ̣  ̣[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣]λοις αἰγυπτιστὶ Κνη[φ](*) [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
ἑλληνιστὶ δὲ πλάστης µέγ[ας ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
——
καὶ πλάσας βοῦς δύο ἴσους[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩](*)
καὶ τὰς φύσεις ἄρρενας καὶ   ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩](*)
——
5καὶ ἄλλον σχηµατοποήσας(*) [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
τὸ σῶµα ὄφεωςʹ µὴ ἔχοντο[ς ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩](*)
ἀλλʼ ἐξ ἑκατέρου τοῦ μέρους [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩](*)
[  ̣  ̣] μὲν ἀνθρώπων κεφαλ[άς ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
χ̣η̣ναλωπέκων κεφαλάς [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩ πτε-]
10ρύγων χρυσοειδῶν ἐχον[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
τοὺς ταῖς μορφαῖς κ[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩](*)
——
ἔχοντα τὸ μὲν σῶμ[α ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩](*)
μορφὴν ἱέρακοςʹ π[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩](*)
αἰγυπτιστὶ εη[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
15λεπτὰς ἑρμην[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩](*)
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Apparatus


^ 1. Κν[ηφ] Merkelbach
^ 3. ἴσους [τὸ µεγέθος] Youtie
^ 4. καὶ [τὴν χροιὰν µέλανας] Totti
^ 5. l. σχηµατοποιήσας
^ 6. μὴ ἔχοντο[ς μηδένα κέρκον] Packman : μὴ ἔχοντο[ς κεφαλήν ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩] Merkelbach : μὴ ἔχοντο[ς μόνον μίαν κεφαλήν] Totti
^ 7. τοῦ μέρους [κεφαλὰς δύο] Totti : τοῦ μέρους [τρικεφάλου] Packman
^ 11. κ[αὶ ἄλλον ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩] Merkelbach
^ 12. σῶμ[α, τὴν δὲ κεφαλὴν εἰς] Merkelbach : σῶμ[α κροκοδείλου, τὴν δὲ] Τοtti
^ 13. ἱέρακος π[ελαγίου ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩] Packman
^ 15. ἑρμην[είας] (?) Suppl.Mag.

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Notes

  • 6.

    The apostrophe after the word ὄφεωϲ (l. 6) and ἱέρακοϲ (l. 13) may indicate that both the snake and the hawk are divine: see parallels in e.g. GEMF 11 PGM LXIX and 52 XXIVa.10, as suggested in GEMF 1

  • 14.

    on either side of the letters εη there is a space of one letter; in the lacuna ἑλληνιστί, as suggested by Merkelbach

  • 15.

    perhaps ἑρμην[είας], as suggested by Supplementum Magicum 2