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KYPRIANOS M2260

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

SEG 29 930
Museo di Morgantina, Aidone, inv. 62-1724

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. 1-9: Curse against Benousta, slave of Rufus.

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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. 200 – 0
Date notes:

200-100 BCE: Stillwell (1963: p. 165); 100-0 BCE: Pleket & Stroud (1982: p. 225).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A85
Archive name: Benousta-Rufus Sextus Curse Dossier
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Metal (lead)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 9.4 Width: 4.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Nabers (1979: p. 464).

Folding pattern:

8 (?) horizontal creases.

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, 9 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:

Contains the same text as SEG 29 931 (M2261).

Nabers (1979: p. 464) believed that the Benusta mentioned in the dossier might be several slave girls with the same name mentioned in this dossier, one belonging to Rufus, the other to Sextus while (Curbera 1996: p. 296-297) argues that Sextus and Rufus are likely two names of the same individual.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Nabers, Ned. “Ten Lead Tabellae from Morgantina.” American Journal of Archaeology 83 (1979): 463-464 + pl. 65, no. 4.

Stillwell, Richard. “Excavations at Morgantina (Serra Orlando) 1962 Preliminary Report VII.” American Journal of Archaeology 67 (1963): 165 + pl. 35.


Translations:
General:

Curbera, Jaime B. “Venusta and her Owner in Four Curse Tablets From Morgantina, Sicily.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110 (1996): 295-297.

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

Jordan, David R. “A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora.” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 179, no. 118.

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

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. 930, p. 225-226.


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 (11/5/2022); ST (25/5/2022); KD (23/1/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M2260," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m2260. Accessed on 03/05/2024

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