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KYPRIANOS M485

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

SM 54
SEG 44 1444
DT 38
BNF Cabinet de Médailles Inv. C 3844

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. 1-39: Applied curse or love spell to subject Annianos to Ionikos.

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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:

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 15).

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: 15 Width: 16 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 15).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, bottom damaged.

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, 39 surviving lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Alexandria, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Alexandria, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2)
Present Location:

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale. Cabinet des Médailles

Collection History:

Given to the museum by R.P. Poussou after being found in the “rubble of Alexandria” (Alexandriae rudera; Lenormant 1854: p. 369)

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 2593
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Babelon, Ernest, and Adrien Blanchet. Catalogue des bronzes antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris: Leroux, 1895, p. 701-703, no. 2296.

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 15-25, no. 54.

Moraux, Paul. Une defixion judiciaire au Musee d’Istanbul. Bruxelles: Palais des Academies, 1960, p. 48, no. 1.

Pleket, Henry W., et al. “SEG 44-1444. Alexandria. Erotic Spell on a Lead Curse Tablet, 3rd cent. A.D.?” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 44 (SEG 44), edited by A. Chaniotis et al, 1994, no. 1444 (SEG 44 1444).

Wessely, Carl. Ephesi Grammata Aus Papyrusrollen, Inschriften, Gemmen Etc. Gesammelt. Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 1886, no. 244.


Translations:
General:

Jordan, David R. “Magica Graeca Parvula.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994): 322-323.

Kuhnert, Ernst. “Feuerzauber.” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 49 (1894): 37-38.

Lenormant, Fraciscus. “De tabulis devotionis plumbeis Alexandrinis.” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 9 (1854): 369-382.

Wachsmuth, C. “Inschriften aus Korkyra.” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 18 (1863): 563.

Zündel, J. “Aegyptische Glossen. 1. Ueber die Fluchformel auf der Alexandrinischen Bleitafel.” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 19 (1864): 483-496.


Trismegistos ID:

92337

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

54

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

298

To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (20/5/2020); ST (3/11/2020); ST (4/11/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M485," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m485. Accessed on 12/05/2025

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