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KYPRIANOS M1016

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

SB XVIII 13605
SB 18 13605
SEG XXX 1547
SEG 30 1547
Acc. inv. 80.AI.56

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. 1-13: Amulet against pain

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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 – 350
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/01058101.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Metal (silver)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 4.5 Width: 3.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Kotansky (1983: p. 172).

Folding pattern:

11 (?) horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Complete with some damage.

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, 13 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 no. 80.AI.56

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

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/9217/unknown-maker-tablet-lamella-with-an-incantation-against-pain-roman-3rd-century-ad/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Kotansky, Roy. “A Silver Phylactery For Pain.” The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 11 (1983) 169-178.

Pleket, Henry W., and Ronald S. Stroud. “SEG 33-1547. Unknown provenance. Inscription on a silver Phylactery, 3rd cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 33 (SEG 33), edited by A. Chaniotis et al., 1983, no. 1547 (SEG 33-1547).

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 18 (SB 18). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993, no. 13605.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

30982

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


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1016," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1016. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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