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KYPRIANOS M1202

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

SEG XXXIV 1438
Magica Agonistica 18
Apamea Tablet 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 ll. 1-10: Applied curse to bind the horses Hepsikrates, Suriarkhēs, Panainon, Pherinikos, Zoelos, and other members of a chariot team.
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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:

Tremel (2004: p. 109); Jordan (2000: p. 26).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A80
Archive name: Apamea Chariot Curses
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Roll
Material:

Metal (lead)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 4.9 Width: 14.1 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Tremel (2004: p. 109); Jordan (2000: p. 26).
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, 10 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).
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Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

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.

Jimeno, López and Maria del Amor. Textos Griegos de Maleficio. Tres Cantos, Madrid: Akal, 2001, no. 508.

Pleket, H. W. and R. S. Stroud. “SEG 34-1437-1438. Apamea. Lead Defixiones Against the Blues, End of the 5th or 6th cent. A.D.” In Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 34 (SEG 34), edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Thomas Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, and E. Stavrianopoulou, 1984, no. 1438 (SEG 34 1438).

van Rengen, W. “Deux défixions contre les Bleus à Apamée, VIe siècle ap. J. C.” In Apamée de Syrie. Bilan des Recherches archéologiques 1973-1979. Aspects de l’architecture domestique d’Apamée. Actes du colloque tenu à Bruxelles les 29, 30 et 31 Mai, edited by Janine Balty. Bruxelles: Centre Belge de Recherches Archéolog, 1984, p. 213-234.

Tremel, Jan. Magica Agonistica: Fluchtafeln im antiken Sport. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2004, p. 109, no. 18.
Translations:
General:

Heintz, Florent. “Circus Curses and Their Archaeological Contexts.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 11 (1998): 339-340, n. 23.

Jordan, David R. “A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora.” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 192-193.

Jordan, David R. “New Greek Curse Tablets (1985-2000).” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 41 (2000): 26, no. 100.

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 (12/9/2019); ST (30/8/2021); ST (21/10/2021); KD (9/11/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1202," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1202. Accessed on 01/05/2025

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