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KYPRIANOS M1159

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

Os. Mil. Vogl. inv. 1
Cairo Nahman Bone A

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Convex ll. 1-67: Applied curse against the soul of Harōn son of Tkouikira.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)

Language/dialect notes:

Drescher suggests Lower Thebaid (Drescher 1948: p. 267)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 901 – 1000
Date notes:

Collection Website (from KYP 535); c. 901 (Drescher 1948: p. 268); 801-1100 (TM 21/3/2019)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A47
Archive name: Asyut Bone Curse Dossier
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Rib

Material:

Bone (camel, rib)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 52 Width: 5.33 Depth: 1
Dimensions (notes):

Height 47-52 cm.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, considerable 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 convex side.

Hand:

Asyut Bone Curse scribe.

Findspot:

Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1589)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1589)
Present Location:

Milan, Istituto di Papirologia dell’Università degli Studi

Collection History:

Previously in the collection of M. Robert Nahman, Cairo Antiquities Dealer (Drescher 1948: p. 267). Donated to the University of Milan by Alexandra Nahman, sister of Robert Nahman, in 1990. Photographs in the Coptic Museum (Drescher 1948: p. 267).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 229
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Written in blood or red ink (Drescher 1948: p. 267).

Previously included in same entry as ID 535, another bone with nearly identical text.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Dosoo, Korshi. “The Powers of Death: Memory, Place, and Eschatology in a Coptic Curse”, Religion in the Roman Empire 7.2 (2021), 167-194.

Drescher, James. “A Coptic Malediction.” Annales du service des antiquités de l‘Égypte 48 (1948), p. 267-276.


Translations:

Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: i testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II 18.5, edited by W. Hasse and H. Temporini. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 3721, no. 25.

Pernigotti, Sergio. Testi della Magia Copta. Imola: Editrice La Mandragora, 2000, p. 74-75, no. 44.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 204-206, no. 98.


General:

Gallazzi, Claudio, and Patrizia Piacentini. “Testi copti ed arabi dell’Istituto di Papirologia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano.” Acme. Annali della Facoltà di Filosofia e Lettere dell’Università Statale di Milano 51.3 (1998): p. 7, fig. 8.


Trismegistos ID:

99589

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

98

Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

42

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 (24/6/2019); EL (1/8/2019); MPS (26/11/2019); MPS (17/8/2020); KD (27/11/2020); KD (26/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1159," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1159. Accessed on 06/05/2024

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