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KYPRIANOS M1185

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

SEG XXXV 214
Stoa of Attalos Inv. No. IL 960
Magica Agonistica 2

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. 1-16: Applied curse for Sekoundos against Eutuchianos the wrestler.

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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 – 250
Date notes:

Jordan (1985: p. 216).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A54
Archive name: Athens Curses against Eutukhianos
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Metal (lead)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 14.6 Width: 5.9 Depth: 0.25
Dimensions (notes):

Jordan (1985: p. 216).

Folding pattern:

Rolled

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, 16 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Athens, Attica, Greece

(TM places ID: 364)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Athens, Attica, Greece

(TM places ID: 364)
Present Location:

Stoa of Attalos, Agora

Collection History:

Found in situ rolled up in the Roman well (Well V) outside the southwest corner of the ancient Agora, in the valley to the northwest of the Areiopagos. (Jordan 1985: p. 205.)

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Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Jordan, David R. “Defixiones from a Well Near the Southwest Corner of the Athenian Agora.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 54 (1985): 205-255, no. 2.

Pleket, H. W. and R. S. Stroud. “SEG 35-213-227. Lead curse tablets from the athenian Agora, ca. 250 A.D.?” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 35 (SEG 35), edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Thomas Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, and E. Stavrianopoulou, 1985, no. 214 (SEG 35 214).

Tremel, Jan. Magica Agonistica: Fluchtafeln im antiken Sport. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2004, p. 96, no. 2.


Translations:
General:

Jordan, David R. “A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora.” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 161, no. 25.


Trismegistos ID: 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

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Edit History:

KD (3/9/2019); ST (8/8/2021); KD (12/10/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1185," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1185. Accessed on 17/05/2024

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