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KYPRIANOS M1193

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

SEG 53 1786
The Art Museum, Princeton University Inv. no. 3603-I56

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. 1-61: Applied curse against the horses of the Blue team, 36 of whom are named.
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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. 451 – 550
Date notes:

Hollmann (2003: p. 67); 5th-6th century according to TheDeMa (11/9/2019);
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Metal (lead)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 26 Width: 9.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

TheDeMa (11/9/2019); Jordan (2000: p. 27);
26 x 9 cm: Hollmann (2003: p. 67).
Folding pattern:

Rolled.
State of preservation:

Damaged and incomplete.
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, 61 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Antioch, Syria

(TM places ID: 205)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Antioch, Syria

(TM places ID: 205)
Present Location:

The Art Museum, Princeton University
Collection History:

Found during excavations of the circus at Antioch in the hippodrome of Antioch in Syria 12/6/1934 and afterwards taken to Princeton. (Hollmann 2003: p. 67-68.)
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:

Chaniotis, Angelos, T. Corsten, R. S. Stroud, and T. A. Tybout. “SEG 53-1786. Antiochia. Defixio against the horses of the Blues on a lead tablet, late 5th/early 6th cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 53 (SEG 53), edited by Angelos Chaniotis, T. Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, and E. Stavrianopoulou, 2003, no. 1786 (SEG 53 1786).

Heintz, Florent. “Circus Curses and Their Archaeological Contexts.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 11 (1998): 337-342.

Hollmann, Alexander. “A Curse Tablet from the Circus at Antioch.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 145 (2003): 67-82.

Tremel, Jan. Magica Agonistica: Fluchtafeln im antiken Sport. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2004, p. 105-106, no. 11.
Translations:
General:

Campbell, William A. “The Third Season of Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes.” American Journal of Archaeology 40 (1936): 2.

Downey, Glanville. “Greek and Latin Inscriptions.” In: Antioch on-the-Orontes. Vol. 2, edited by Richard Stillwell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938, p. 148.

Heintz, Florent. “Magic Tablets and the Games at Antioch.” In: Antioch. The Lost Ancient City, edited by Christine Kondoleon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, p. 163-168, no. 53.

Humphrey, John H. “Prolegomena to the Study of the Hippodrome at Caesarea Maritima.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 213 (1974): 40.

Jordan, David R. “A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora.” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 193.

Jordan, David R. “New Greek Curse Tablets (1985-2000).” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 41 (2000): 27, no. 102.

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 (11/9/2019); ST (24/8/2021); KD (15/10/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M1193," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1193. Accessed on 21/12/2025

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