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KYPRIANOS M1187

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

SEG XXXV 216
Inv. No. IL 956
Magica Agonistica 4

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. 1-19: Applied curse against Attalos, son of Attalos
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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:

201-250 CE: Jordan (1985: p. 218); 3rd century according to TheDeMa 4/9/2019.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Metal (lead)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 1.3 Width: 9.7 Depth: .3
Dimensions (notes):

Jordan (1985: p. 218).
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, 19 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.)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
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. 4.

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. 216 (SEG 35 216).

Tremel, Jan. Magica Agonistica: Fluchtafeln im antiken Sport. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2004, p. 98, no. 4.
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. 27.

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 (4/9/2019); ST (8/8/2021); KD (13/10/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M1187," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1187. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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