KYP M3849

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KYPRIANOS M3849

Sigla:

GMA 28
Paris, Cabinet des Médailles (BN), Collection Froehner, cat. no . 1211
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale. Cabinet des Médailles 1211

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Magical (applied)
Contents:	1. Ro ll. 1-3: A victory charm (amulet for protection)
	See all texts in this manuscript.

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.	50 – 50
Date notes:	1st half of 1s tcentury BCE – 1st half of 1st century CE according to Kotansky (1994: p. 113).
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:	Published.
Image:

Form:	Sheet
Material:	Metal (gold)

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 2

Width: 6.1

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	Kotansky (1994: p. 113).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:	Complete.
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, 3 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:	Rome, Italy (TM places ID: 2058)
Place of purchase:	(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:	Rome, Italy (TM places ID: 2058)
Present Location:	Paris, Cabinet des Médailles (BN)
Collection History:	Discovered 1852 by Gaetano Canestrelli at the Vigna Codini in the south of Rome (Kotansky, 1994: p. 113).
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

The Packard Humanities Institute Searchable Greek Inscriptions entry:
https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/331368

EAGLE Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy entry:
http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/res_complex_comune.php?do=book&id_nr=EDR115076

https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_edcs_id=EDCS-64400127

EDCS – Epigraphy Database Clauss entry:
https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/64400127

Bibiliography

Editions:	Bonner, Campbell. “An Obscure Inscription on a Gold Tablet.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 13 (1944): 30-35. Jordan, David R. “The Inscribed Gold Tablet from the Vigna Codini.” American Journal of Archaeology 89 (1985): 162-167. ★ Kotansky, Roy. Greek Magical Amulets. The Inscribed Gold, Silver, Copper, and Bronze Lamellae. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994, p. 113-117, no. 28, fig. 28, pl. VI. Lafaye, George. Histoire du Culte des Divinités d’Alexandrie. Sérapis, Isis, Harpocrate et Anubis hors de l’Égypte depuis les Origines jusqu’a la naissance de l’école Neo-Platonicienne. Paris: Ernest Thorin, 1884, p. 323. Malaise, Michel. Inventaire Préliminaire des Documents Égyptiens dècouverts en Italie. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972, p. 144-145, no. 109 bis. Merkelbach, Reinhold. Abrasax. Ausgewählte Papyri Religiösen und Magischen Inhalts. Vol. 3. Zwei Griechisch-Ägyptische Weihezeremonien. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1991, p. 58. Pleket, H. W., and R. S. Stroud. “SEG 35-1051. Rome. Phylactery on a Gold Tablet, late 1st-early 2nd cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 35 (SEG 35), edited by H. W. Pleket, and R. S. Stroud. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1988, no 1051. Preisendanz, Karl. “Die griechischen und lateinischen Zaubertafeln.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 9 (1930): 136. Vidman, Ladislav. Isis und Sarapis bei den Griechen und Römern. Epigraphische Studien zur Verbreitung und zu den Trägern des ägyptischen Kultes. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1970, p. 152-154. Woodhead, A. G. “SEG-619. Rome. Precatio, aet. Hellenist.(?)” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 15 (SEG 15), edited by A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, and E. Stavrianopoulou, 1958, no. 619. Wünsch, Richard. Sethianische Verfluchungstafeln aus Rom. Leipzig: Teubner, 1898, p. 101.
Translations:
General:	Froehner, W. “Sur une Amulette Basilidienne inédite du Musée Napoléon.” Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 4 (1866): 223. Heraeus, W. “Προπειν.” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 70 (1915): 12, note 2. Jahn, Otto. “Wissenschaftliche Vereine.” Archäologische Zeitung 12 (1854): 441. Secchi, Giovanni P. BULLETTINO DELL’ISTITUTO DI CORRESPONDENZA ARCHEOLOGICA. Roma: Salviucci, 1852, p. 151-152. Stambaugh, John E. Sarapis under the Early Ptolemies. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972, p. 84-85.

Trismegistos ID:

279467
695893

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:

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