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KYPRIANOS M1015

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

SB XVIII 13603
SB 18 13603
SEG XXX 1794
SEG 30 1794
Malibu, Getty Museum Accession no. 80.AI.53
Acc. inv. 80.AI.53

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. 1-31: Amulet for the healing and protection of Aurelia from epilepsy and evil spirits.

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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. 201 – 300
Date notes:

TM (30/1/2021).

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

Published.

Image: https://media.getty.edu/museum/images/web/download/01057801.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Metal (gold)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 4.2 Width: 2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Coll. website (4/3/2021).

Folding pattern:

6 horizontal 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. 31 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Malibu, Getty Museum Accession

Collection History:

Acquired shortly before 1980 (Kotansy 1980 p. 181).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 215
Collection website: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/9214/unknown-maker-tablet-lamella-with-an-incantation-against-epilepsy-roman-3rd-century-ad/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Kotansky, Roy. “Two Amulets in the Getty Museum: A Gold Amulet for Aurelia’s Epilepsy: An Inscribed Magical-Stone for Fever, “Chills”, and Headache.” The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 8 (1980): 181-184.

Pleket, Henry W., and Ronald S. Stroud. “SEG 30-1794. Unknown provenance. Amulet for Aurelia’s epilepsy, 3rd cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 30 (SEG 30), edited by A. Chaniotis et al., 1980, no. 1794 (SEG 30 1794).

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 18 (SB 18). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993, no. 13603.


Translations:
General:

De Haro Sanchez, Magali. “Le vocabulaire de la pathologie et de la thérapeutique dans les papyrus iatromagiques grecs Fièvres, traumatismes et ‘épilepsie’.” The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 47 (2010): 148-150.

Kotansky, Roy. “Incantations and Prayers for Salvation on Inscribed Greek Amulets.” In Magika hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Dirk Obbink. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 118.

Wilburn, Andrew T. Materia magica: the archaeology of magic in Roman Egypt, Cyprus, and Spain. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016, p. 68.


Trismegistos ID:

30981

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

06064.000

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 (30/1/2021); KD (4/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1015," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1015. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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