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KYPRIANOS M2266

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

National Museum of Antiquities and Ancient Islamic Art [no inventory number]

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: Applied curse against Satornina.
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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. 1 – 100
Date notes:

Date proposed in Roesch 1966-7, but Robert & Robert 1968 suggest that this is too early.
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: 5.1 Width: 10.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Roesch (1966-1967: p. 321).
Folding pattern:

9 (?) vertical creases.
State of preservation:

Complete, broken at the left.
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:

Theveste, Roman Africa

(TM places ID: 3355)
Place of purchase:

Theveste, Roman Africa

(TM places ID: 3355)
Writingspot:

Theveste, Roman Africa

(TM places ID: 3355)
Present Location:

National Museum of Antiquities and Ancient Islamic Art, Algiers
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 1502
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Roesch, Paul. “Une tablette de malédiction de Tébessa.” Bulletin d’Archéologie Algérienne 2 (1966-1967): 231-237.
Translations:
General:

Robert, Jeanne, and Louis Robert. “Bulletin Épigraphique.” Revue des Études Grecques 81 (1968): 543, no. 592.

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:

KD (5/11/2021); ST (18/5/2022); KD (23/6/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M2266," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m2266. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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