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= Trismegistos 64529 = LDAB 5756 = HGV SB 14 11909 = yale.apis.0012060000



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Title Magical handbook: iatro-magical spells and paignia
translation 12669. Hans Dieter Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells. Second Edition., (Chicago London 1992). 322-323
Reference Edition
  • - 12729. Robert W. Daniel and Franco Maltomini eds., Supplementum Magicum. Vol. II., (Opladen 1992). 76
  • - 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/9650x69r28
  • - 10954. Hans Dieter Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells. I: Texts., (Chicago London 1986). p. 322-323 no. PGM 127
Fragments New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library P. CtYBR 1206
Support Material papyrus
Date 200 - 399
More from the period between 200 CE and 399 CE
Origin Found: Tebtynis (Arsinoites, Egypt); written: Egypt
More from Found: Tebtynis (Arsinoites, Egypt); written: Egypt
Form and Layout papyrus roll (columns: 7, pagination: 0)
Genre magic; iatromancy; medicine
Culture religion
Religion Egyptian
Print Illustrations Hellenika 27 (1974), pl.11
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

HGV: SB 14 11909 [source] [xml]

Title Magisch-medizinische Rezepte
Publications SB 14 11909 LDAB 64529
More in series SBMore in series SB, vol. 14
P.Yale II 134
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries IX 277; X 211
Translations G.M. Parassoglou, Hellenika 27, 1974, S. 252-253; Suppl. Mag. II 76 (1991)
Origin unbekannt
More from unbekannt
Material Papyrus
Date III - IV
More from the period between 201 CE and 400 CE
Print Illustrations ÑEllhnikã 27, 1974, PIN. 11
Subjects Rezepte gegen Schwäche; Magie; Medizin
Images http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/ldpd/app/apis/item?mode=item&k...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 64529 [source]

Publications Betz, The Greek magical papyri in translation p. 322-323 no. PGM 127 (Kotansky, Roy D.; 1986) = P. Yale 2 134 (Stephens, Susan A.; 1985) = Hellenika 27 (1974), p. 251-253 (Parássoglou, George M.; 1974) = Suppl. Mag. 2 76 (Daniel, Robert Walter; 1992) = SB 14 11909 (Rupprecht, Hans-Albert; 1982)
Inv. no. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library P. CtYBR 1206 qua
Date AD 200 - 399
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, 00c - Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat)[found]; Egypt[written]

Catalog Record: yale.apis.0012060000 [xml]

Title Magical text [GMP], Paignia [SAS], Roman CE ca. 200 (or later) [CBW]|Roman-Byzantine CE iii-iv [GMP]|Byzantine CE early iv [SAS]
Summary Only col. vi is published; there are remnants of at least 7 columns extant.
Citations Parássoglou 1974: 251-53, pl. 11; only col. vi is published
Maltomini 1980a: 374, to col. vi.
P.Yale II, pp. 148-50, only col. vi is published
Betz 1986: 322-23
Inv. Id P.CtYBR inv. 1206 qua
Support/Dimensions Papyrus: Cols. i-iii: 230 x 336; Cols. iv-v: 171 x 241; Col. vi: 172 x 204 mm
Language Greek
Date Roman CE ca. 200 (or later) [CBW] Roman-Byzantine CE iii-iv [GMP] Byzantine CE early iv [SAS]
Note (general) 7 cols. Versos are blank. Three panes; a few tiny scraps are set aside in a box.
Subjects Magical text [GMP], Paignia [SAS]; Papyri
Images http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2758037...
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

Introduction

Iatromagical prescriptions (SB 14.11909 = P.Yale 2.134 = Suppl.Mag. 2.76). The text constitutes the sixth column (20x16.5 cm) of a roll (P.CtYBR inv. 1206) containing a collection of magical charms; the remains of the preceding five columns are still unpublished and the back is blank. This column contains six magical-medical prescriptions (two more iatromagical recipes are written at the end of column v but are too fragmentary to yield any sense: only their layout suggests that they belong to the same genre) similar in style and content to the "Jocular Recipes" of Democritus (Δημοκρίτου Παίγνια: PGM 7,167-85 = CPF 1.1.2.43a,1T). The prescriptions are separated by paragraphoi and extra interlinear space. The hand is large and upright, very similar to that of P.Oxy. 19.2227, a chancery style dated to AD 306.

(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Nicola Reggiani as part of the Project "DIGMEDTEXT - Online Humanities Scholarship: A Digital Medical Library based on Ancient Texts" (ERC-AdG-2013, Grant Agreement no. 339828) funded by the European Research Council at the University of Parma (Principal Investigator: Prof. Isabella Andorlini). The digital edition is mostly based on the previous editions (ed.pr. = G.M. Parassoglou, SB XIV 11909; ed.alt. = S.A. Stephens, P.Yale II 134; ed.ter. = R.W. Daniel - F. Maltomini, Suppl.Mag. II 76; corr. F. Maltomini, CCC 1, 1980, p. 374; M. Marcovich, ZPE 65, 1986, p. 58; F. Maltomini, ZPE 68, 1987, pp. 105-6).)

DCLP transcription: 64529 [xml]

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κατκύψαι καὶ μὴ ἀνα̣κύψαι· νάρκης
θαλασσίας ἐνκεφάλῳ(*) [χ]ρ̣ῖε τὴν ἐσφῦν(*).
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ἐν βαλανείῳ τινὰ ἔρεσθαι(*)· κυνὸς νε-
κροῦ κροτῶνα θλά̣σ̣ον(*) ἰς(*) τὴν ἐσφῦν(*).
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5γυναικὶ ἐμπαῖξαι· θαψίας χυλῶι(*)
χρεῖε(*) τὸ αἰδοῖον.
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ἐν συ̣[μ]ποσίῳ μάχ̣ην γενέσθαι· κυνό-
δηκτον λίθον βά̣λε ἰς(*) τὸ μέσον.
——
ὄξος δριμὺ ποιῆ̣σ̣αι· ψήφους πυρώ-
10σας βάλ’ ἐν [αὐ]τ̣ῶι.
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πρὸς πολλὰ βεινῖν(*)· σελείνου(*)
καὶ εὐζώμου σπ[έρ]μα πρότιε.

Apparatus


^ 2. l. ἐγκεφάλῳ
^ 2. l. ὀσφῦν
^ 3. l. αἴρεσθαι
^ 4. ed.ter. : θλ[ῖ]ψον ed.pr., ed.alt.
^ 4. l. εἰς
^ 4. l. ὀσφῦν
^ 5. corr. ex χ⟦ει⟧
^ 6. l. χρῖε
^ 8. l. εἰς, or βά̣λ’ εἰς(?)
^ 11. l. βινεῖν
^ 11. l. σελίνου

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Notes

  • 1-2.

    Recipe for relaxing an erect penis: a prescription against priapism, or perhaps just a joke. The νάρκη θαλασσία "torpedo, electric ray" was generally believed to have antaphrodisiac power: see e.g. Plin. NH 32.139. ἀνακύπτω said of the penis is attested in Aristoph. Thesm. 1187b (cod. R, excised by Bentley).

  • 3-4.

    Recipe to pick someone up at the baths.

  • 5-6.

    Recipe for amorous dalliance with a woman. On the properties of θαψία "deadly carrot" see Dsc. MM 4.153,3-4 (2.299,6 ff. Wellmann).

  • 7-8.

    Recipe to cause a fight at a banquet. Literary parallels for stone throwing (but into the wine, not in the midst) e.g. in Aelian. NA 1.38 and Plin. NH 29.102; a Coptic parallel in an 11th-century codex: BKU 1.26, p. 29,15-16. There are also Arabic and medieval parallels. Marcovich 1986 argues that the dog-bitten stone must always be thrown into the wine bowl in order to create a contact with the guests, and proposes to read εἰς τὸ μέθυ also considering the following spell. His argument was rejected by Maltomini 1987.

  • 9-10.

    Recipe to turn wine sour.

  • 11-12.

    Recipe for frequent sexual intercourses. On the aphrodisiac properties of σέλινον "celery" and εὔζωμον "rocket" see e.g., respectively, Geopon. 12.23,3 (p. 372,4-6 Beckh) and Dsc. MM 2.140 (1.210,5-6 Wellmann).