Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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SEG 29 933 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-4: Curse against Benousta, slave of Sextus. |
| Language(s): | Greek |
| Script(s): | Greek |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
-200 – 0 |
| Date notes: | 2nd or 1st century BCE according to Curbera (1996: p. 295). 1st century BCE according to Pleket & Stroud (1982: p. 225). |
| Archive/collection:
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: 3.9 | Width: 9.2 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Nabers (1979: p. 464). |
| Folding pattern: | 3 (?) vertical creases. |
| State of preservation: | Incomplete. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 4 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:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
3806 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | 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: | Curbera, Jaime B. “Venusta and her Owner in Four Curse Tablets From Morgantina, Sicily.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110 (1996): 295-297. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Jordan, David. “Appendix I.” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilung 95 (1980): 236-238. |
| Trismegistos ID: | PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
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| Edit History: | ST (16/5/2021); KD (23/6/2022) |