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KYPRIANOS M2205

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

Bardo Museum, inventory number unknown (Grenier no. 1)

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. 1-29: Curse against Archelaos, driver of the green fraction.
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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. 101 – 200
Date notes:

Grenier (1905: p. 58).
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: 15.5 Width: 9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Grenier (1905: p. 55).
Folding pattern:
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, 29 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Hadrumetum, North Africa

(TM places ID: 8315)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hadrumetum, North Africa (?)

(TM places ID: 8315)
Present Location:

Tunis, Bardo Museum
Collection History:

Found in excavations of the necropolis. (Grenier 1905: p. 55.)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 2558
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Grenier, M.A. “Nouvelles Tabellae defixionis de Sousse trouvées dans les fouilles de la nécropole: Musée du Bardo.” Mélanges de l’école française de Rome 25 (1905): 55-62, no. 1.
Translations:
General:

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:

ST (2/9/2021); ST (3/9/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M2205," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m2205. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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