Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Peiraeus Museum 11948 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-9: Applied binding curse against Phanagora and Demetrios invoking Hekate Chthonia and Hermes Chthonios. |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | Attic (Lamont 2021: p. 79-80). |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | -400 – -375 |
Date notes: | Date based on palaeography from Lamont 2021: 79-80. |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A82 |
Archive name: | Athens Grave 8 Pyre 2 Cache |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Metal (lead) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 5.6 | Width: 12.7 | Depth: 0.07 |
Dimensions (notes): | Lamont 2021: p. 81. |
Folding pattern: | 7 (?) vertical creases. |
State of preservation: | Complete, some damage to left and lower right sides. |
Pages/Columns: 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: | Athens, Attica, Greece (TM places ID: 364) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Athens, Attica, Greece (TM places ID: 364) |
Present Location: | Athens, Peiraeus Museum |
Collection History: | Excavated on 4 June 2003 as part of rescue operations carried out by the former ΚΣΤ’ Ephorate for Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities supervised by Maria Peritaki, found in cemetery northeast of the Piraeus, a few metres outside the weternmost Athenian Long Wall, below modern Piraeus Street (131-133) (Lamont 2021: p. 77-78). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 1272 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Pierced with nail 3 cm long, diameter of head of 1.5 cm. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Chaniotis, A., Corsten, T., Stroud, R.S. and Tybout, R.A., “SEG 57-297. Agios Ioannis Rentis. Curse tablets, date?”, in Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, edited by A.Chaniotis, T. Corsten, E. Stavrianopolou, and N. Papazarkadas, 2007 |
Translations: | |
General: | Chaniotis, Angelos. “Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion 2010 (EBGR 2010).” Kernos 26 (2013): p. 288. |
Trismegistos ID: | 962276 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
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 | ||||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (29/11/2021); KD (15/9/2022) |