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KYPRIANOS M2257

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

Archeological Museum inv. nr. 1339
Palermo, Museo Archeologico. N.I. 1339.

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: Curse against Gaios Oueibios son of Lukios Ouibios, Barbara Lollia daughter of Agbōr Boukis, Gaios Ramios, Kōmedia Tittolla, Gnaios Eistanios, Lollis, brother of Lollia, and Titinis Lukos.
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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. -100 – 50
Date notes:

1st century BCE to early 1st century CE according to Curbera (1997: p. 219); Bombace (1984: p. 163).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Tablet
Material:

Metal (lead)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 11 Width: 9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Curbera (1997: p. 220); Bombace (1984: p. 163).
Folding pattern:

1 horizontal crease.
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:

Lilybaion, Sicily

(TM places ID: 22315)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Lilybaion, Sicily (?)

(TM places ID: 22315)
Present Location:

Marsala, Museo Archeologico Regionale
Collection History:

Found in a grave in Lilybaion (Baas 2016: p. 259; Curbera 1997: p. 219; Bombace 1984: p. 163).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 3526
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Baas, Philipp. “Lilybaeum, eine Stadt als Kontaktzone punischer und römischer Kultur.” In Karthago Dialoge. Karthago und der punische Mittelmeerraum – Kulturkontakte und Kulturtransfers im 1. Jahrtausend vor Christus, edited by Frerisch Schön and Hanni Töpfer. Tübingen: Pro BUSINESS digital printing Deutschland GmbH, 2016, p. 259.

Bombace, Alberto. “Laminetta plumbea iscritta.” In: Lilibeo. Testimonianze Archeologiche dal IV sec. a.c. al V sec. d.c., edited by Carmela Angela di Stefano, Giuseppe Gini, Maria Luisa Famà, and Adriana Fresina. Marsala: Edizioni Pegaso, 1984, p. 163-164, no. 185.

Curbera, Jaime B. “The Persons Cursed on a Defixio from Lilybaaeum.” Mnemosyne 50 (1997): 219-225.

Gabrici, Ettore. “Sicilia. VIII. – Rinvenimenti nelle zone archeologiche di Panormo e di Lilibeo.” Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità 66 (1941): 299-302.
Translations:
General:

Chaniotis, Angelos, Thomas Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, and E. Stavrianopoulou. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Vol. 34 (SEG 34). Leiden: Brill, 1984.

del Amor López Jimeno, Maria. Las Tabellae Defixionis de la Sicilia Griega. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1991, no. 30.

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 (28/4/2022); ST (2/5/2022); ST (25/5/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M2257," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m2257. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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