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KYPRIANOS M1191

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

SEG XLIV 308
SEG LIV 421
Magica Agonistica 8
Isthmus Museum, excavation storerooms, inv. IM 3263 A+B

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

Magical (applied)
Contents:

1. Ro col. 1 ll. 1-4 + col. 2 ll. 1-11 + col. 3 ll. 1-2 + col. 4 ll. 1-2 + col. 5 ll. 1-4: Applied curse against Epilenaios, Kronios, Markios and Seleukos the runners.
2. Vo: Semicircular diagram + magical letters
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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 – 301
Date notes:

TheDeMa (5/9/2019); Jordan (1994: p. 216).
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: 14.1 Width: 6.3 Depth: .1
Dimensions (notes):

TheDeMa gives two sizes; the second is 14.1 (W) x 3.6 (H); this may be a second fragment TheDeMa (5/9/2019); Jordan (2000: p. 13);
12,3 x 6,3 x 0,1 cm: Jordan (1994: p. 216).
Folding pattern:

Rolled
State of preservation:

Fragmentary; broken at bottom, perhaps at left and right too.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

6
Pages/Columns (notes):

5 columns and 4 sketches of men on recto and semicircular diagram + magical letters on verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Isthmia, Corinthia, Greece

(TM places ID: 15746)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Isthmia, Corinthia, Greece

(TM places ID: 15746)
Present Location:

Isthmus Museum
Collection History:

Found in 1959 through excavation of the well(Jordan 1994: p. 216).
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. “Lead Tablets from the Games in the Sanctuary of Poseidon.” Hesperia 63 (1994): 111-126, no. 5.

Pleket, Henry W., R. S. Stroud, and J. H. M. Strubble. “SEG 44-308. Isthmia. Lead curse tablet, 3rd cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 44 (SEG 44), edited by A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, and E. Stavrianopoulou, 1994, no. 308 (SEG 44 308).

Tremel, Jan. Magica Agonistica: Fluchtafeln im antiken Sport. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2004, p. 102, no. 8.
Translations:
General:

Broneer, Oscar T. Isthemia. Topography and Architecture. Princeton, N. J.: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1973, p. 115.

Chaniotis, Angelos, T. Corsten, R. S. Stroud, and R. A. Tybout. “SEG 54-421. Isthmia. Lead curse tablet, 4th cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 54 (SEG 54), edited by Angelos Chaniotis, T. Corsten, N. Papazarkadas and E. Stavrianopoulou, 2004, no. 421 (SEG 54 421).

Jimeno, López and Maria del Amor. Textos griegos de maleficio. Tres Cantos, Madrid: Akal, 2001, no. 311.

Jordan, David R. “A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora.” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 167.

Jordan, David R. “New Greek Curse Tablets (1985-2000).” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 41 (2000): 12-13, no. 26.

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 (5/9/2019); ST (9/8/2021); KD (15/10/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M1191," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1191. Accessed on 21/12/2025

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