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KYPRIANOS M3754

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

Peiraeus Museum 11948
ΜΠ 11948
SEG 57 297

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: Applied binding curse against Phanagora and Demetrios invoking Hekate Chthonia and Hermes Chthonios.
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Dialect:

Attic (Lamont 2021: p. 79-80).
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon 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: question mark icon 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: .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: 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:

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: question mark icon 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

Lamont, Jessica L. “A New Commercial Curse Tablet from Classical Athens,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2015) 196: 159–74.

★ Lamont, Jessica L. “Crafting Curses in Classical Athens: A New Cache of Hexametric Katadesmoi”, Classical Antiquity 40.1 (2021), p. 76–117, no. 1.

Petritaki, M. “ανασκαφικές εργασίες: Οδός Πειραιώς 131–133 και 137, Iδιοκτησία ΟΙΚΟΕΜ-Κα-αΤΕ, Ε. Τσακίρη.” Archaiologikon Deltion 56–59 B1 (2010) 449–51.
Translations:
General:

Chaniotis, Angelos. “Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion 2010 (EBGR 2010).” Kernos 26 (2013): p. 288.

Chaniotis, Angelos, Nikos E. Kaltsas, Iannis Mylonopoulos, J. Mylonopoulos, and Alexander S. Onassis (eds.). A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC–200 AD. New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2017, no. 10.

Feyel, Christophe. “Bulletin Épigraphique in Revue des Études Grecques”, in in Révue d’études grecques (2010), p. 707-708, no. 223.

Petritaki, M. “Προσπάθεια ανασύνθεσης του αρχαιολογικού τοπίου στην ευρύτερη περιοχή του Πειραιά βάσει των νέων ανασκαφικών δεδομένων”, In Aπό τα Μεσόγεια στον Aργοσαρωνικό: B’ Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Aρχαιοτήτων, edited by V. Vasilopoulou and S. Katsarou-Tzeveleki. Markopoulo, 2009, 451–480.

Trismegistos ID:

962276

 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:

KD (29/11/2021); KD (15/9/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M3754," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3754. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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