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KYPRIANOS M1139

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

SB 1 5620
SB I 5620
Brooklyn Museum 37.1755E
SEG 56-1994

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

Magical (applied)
Contents:

1. Reverse ll. 1-13, edge, obverse: Applied amulet for the protection of Ammonios with a hymn to the god Mios.
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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. 101 – 300
Date notes:

Herbert (1972: p. 49).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Gem
Material:

Stone (jasper)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 2.6 Width: 1.9 Depth: .2
Dimensions (notes):

Bernand (1900: p. 87); Herbert (1972: p. 49).
Folding pattern:
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.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each obverse, edge and reverse.
Hand:

Findspot:

Saqqara, Memphis, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1344)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Saqqara, Memphis, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1344)
Present Location:

Brooklyn Museum, New York
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 244
Collection website: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/118275

Notes/Discussion:

Object is apparently absent from the Campbell Bonner database.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bonner, Campbell. Studies in Magical Amulets: Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950, p. 183-185, no. 283.

Froehner, W. Mélanges d’Épigraphie et d’Archéologie. Paris: Detaille, 1873, p. 1-6, no. 1.

Herbert, Kevin. Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1972, p. 49-51, no. 24.

Levy, Isidore. “SARAPIS: V. La statue mystérieuse.” Revue de l’histoire des religions 63 (1911): 141-143.

Merkelbach, Reinhold, and Maria Totti. Abrasax: Ausgewählte Papyri religiösen und magischen Inhalts. Vol. 4, Exorzismen und jüdisch/christlich beeinflusste Texte. Pap. Col. 17.2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1991, p. 123-126.

Perdrizet, Paul. “Antiquités de Leontopolis.” Monuments et Mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot 26 (1921): 359-361.

Preisigke, Friedrich. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 1 (SB I). Straßburg : Karl J. Trübner, 1915, p. 599, no. 5620.

Weber, Manfred, and Angelo Geissen. Die alexandrinischen Gaumünzen der römischen Kaiserzeit. Die ägyptischen Gaue und ihre Ortsgötter im Spiegel der numismatischen Quellen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013, p. 302-303.
Translations:

Bernand, Étienne. “Le culte du lion en Basse Égypte d’après les documents grecs.” Diologues d’Histoire Ancienne 16.1 (1900): 87-91, no. 10. (French)

Geissen, Angelo and Manfred Weber. “Untersuchungen zu den ägyptischen Nomenprägungen VIII.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 158 (2006): 273. (German)
General:

Chaniotis, Angelos, Thomas Corsten, Ronald S. Stroud, and R. A. Tybout. “SEG 56-1994. Memphis (area of Saqqarah). Magic amulet, Roman Imperial period.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 56 (SEG 56), edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Thomas Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, and E. Stavrianopoulou, 2006, no. 1994 (SEG 56 1994).

(https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/supplementum-epigraphicum-graecum/seg-56-1994-memphis-area-of-saqqarah-magic-amulet-roman-imperial-period-a56_1994?s.num=58634&s.rows=50&s.start=58600)

Trismegistos ID:

98559

 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:

KD (25/4/2019); ST (20/7/2021); KD (8/10/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M1139," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1139. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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