Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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SEG XXXIV 1437 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-13: Applied curse (competition, racing) calling upon the “holy kharactēres” to bind the horses Porphuras, Hapsikrates, and Eugenios, the drivers of the blues |
| Language(s): | Greek |
| Script(s): | Greek |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
451 – 550 |
| Date notes: | Gager (1992: p. 56); Jordan (2000: p. 26). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A80 |
| Archive name: | Apamea Chariot Curses |
| State of edition: | Published |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Metal (lead) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 5.2 | Width: 11.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Gager (1992: p. 56); Jordan (2000: p. 26). |
| Folding pattern: | Rolled |
| State of preservation: | Complete. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 13 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Apamea, Syria (TM places ID: 3217) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Apamea, Syria (TM places ID: 3217) |
| Present Location: | Apamea Museum (?), Syria |
| Collection History: | Found in situ; excavated on 23 September 1970 during the 5th Belgian excavation campaign at Apamea behind the “Edifice au Triclinios”, buried against the precinct of a martyrion (van Rengen 1984: p. 213; Heintz 1998: p. 340). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
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| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Jimeno, López and Maria del Amor. Textos Griegos de Maleficio. Tres Cantos, Madrid: Akal, 2001, no. 507. |
| Translations: | Gager, John G. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 56-58, no. 6. |
| General: | Gager, John G. “Curse and Competition in the Ancient Circus.” In Of Scribes and Scrolls: Studies on the Hebrew Bible, Intertestamental Judaism, and Christian Origins, edited by Harold W. Attridge, John C. Collins, and Thomas H. Tobin. Lanham: University Press of America, 1990, p. 224-228. |
| Trismegistos ID: | PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
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| Edit History: | KD (12/9/2019); ST (30/8/2021); KD (19/10/2021); KD (9/1/2021); KD (9/11/2021) |