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KYPRIANOS M3739

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

GMA 65
Paris, Musée du Louvre Bj 89 inv. M.N.D. 1342

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. 1-8: Amulet for Abbagaza for protection against evil spirits and diseases.

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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. 101 – 300
Date notes:

Kotansky (1994: p. 379).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A90
Archive name: Kopč-Taly Phylactery Group
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010257270

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Metal (silver)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 3.5 Width: 13 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Kotansky (1994: p. 379).

Folding pattern:

6 vertical creases.

State of preservation:

Complete with some damage.

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, 8 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Theodosia, Crimea

(TM places ID: 38319)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Theodosia, Crimea (?)

(TM places ID: 38319)
Present Location:

Paris, Musée du Louvre

Collection History:

Found 1896 by a shepherd together with GMA 65 (KYP M3884). Acquired by the Louvre from the Collection Messaksoudis in April 1920. (Kotansky 1994: p. 379.)

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010257270

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Kotansky, Roy. Greek Magical Amulets. The Inscribed Gold, Silver, Copper, and Bronze Lamellae. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994, p. 379-382, no. 66, pl. 27.


Translations:
General:

Dain, Alphonse. Inscriptions Grecques du Musée du Louvre. Les Texts Inédits. Paris: Société d’Édition “Les Belles Lettres”, 1933, p. 176, no. 202. (non vidi)

Preisendanz, Karl. “Die Griechischen und Lateinischen Zaubertafeln.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 11 (1935): 159-160.

Pridik, E. “Гречесюя Закляп и Амулеты изб южной Россш.” ОТДЬ КЛАССИЧЕСОЙ ФИЛЛОЛОШ 1899, p. 123f, no. 7. (non vidi)


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 To Zodion:
Edit History:

ST (4/10/2022); KD (8/11/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M3739," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3739. Accessed on 25/04/2024

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