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KYPRIANOS M2258

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

SEG 35 1011
SEG XXXV 1011
Museo di Morgantina, Aidone, inv. 62-820

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. 1-5: Curse against the freed slave Brusa.
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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 – 0
Date notes:

1st century BCE: Nabers (1979: p. 463); Jordan (1985: p. 179); Pleket & Stroud (1988: p. 273).
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: 7 Width: 12.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stillwell (1963: p. 165); Nabers (1979: p. 463); Jordan (1985: p. 179)
Folding pattern:

2 (?) horizontal creases.
State of preservation:

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, 5 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Morgantina, Sicily

(TM places ID: 22319)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Morgantina, Sicily (?)

(TM places ID: 22319)
Present Location:

Aidone, Museo Archeologico
Collection History:

Found in situ.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 3806
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Jordan, David R. “A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora.” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 179, no. 116.

Nabers, Ned. “Ten Lead Tabellae from Morgantina.” American Journal of Archaeology 83 (1979): 463-464 + pl. 65, no. 1.

Pleket, H. W., and R. S. Stroud. “SEG 35-1011. Morgantina, Defixio?, 1st cent. B.C. ?” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 35 (SEG 35), edited by H. W. Pleket, and R. S. Stroud. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1988, no 1011, p. 273.

Pleket, H. W. and R. S. Stroud. “927-935. Morgantina. Inscribed Lead Tablets, 1st cent. B.C. ?” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 29 (SEG 29), edited by H. W. Pleket and R. S. Stroud. Amsterdam: J. C: Gieben, 1982, no. 927, p. 225-226.

Stillwell, Richard. “Excavations at Morgantina (Serra Orlando) 1962 Preliminary Report VII.” American Journal of Archaeology 67 (1963): 165.
Translations:
General:

Jordan, David. “Appendix I.” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilung 95 (1980): 236-238.

Nabes, Ned. “Lead Tabellae from Morgantina.” American Journal of Archaeology 70 (1966): 67-68.

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 (7/5/2022); ST (9/5/2022); ST (11/5/2022); ST (25/5/2022); KD (23/6/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M2258," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m2258. Accessed on 20/12/2025

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