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KYPRIANOS M486

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

SM 42
SEG 45 2129
PSI 1 28
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 14487
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana PSI T. 28 (parallel)

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro-Vo, ll.1-66: Applied love spell to make Gorgonia, daughter of Nilogenia love Sophia, daughter of Isara.

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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. 201 – 400
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 132).

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: 17.5 Width: 19.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Col. website (4/11/2020).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each, recto and verso. 62 lines recto, 4 lines verso.

Hand:

Findspot:

Hermopolis, Egypt

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hermopolis, Egypt

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 128
Collection website: http://www.psi-online.it/documents/psi;1;28

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 132-153, no. 42.

Norsa, Medea. “Editio princeps de PSI I 28 (ll. 1-62).” In: Omaggio al IV convegno dei classicisti tenuto a Firence dal 18 al 20 aprile del 1911. Florence 1911, p. 20-26, no. 5.

Norsa, Medea. Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto: Papiri greci e latini. Vol. 1. Florence: Tipografia Enrico Ariani, 1912, p. 63-69, no. 28.

Pleket, Henry W., et al. “SEG 46-2129. Hermoupolis Magna. Lead tablet inscribed with a spell, 3rd/4th cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 46 (SEG 46), edited by A. Chaniotis et al., 1996, no. 2129 (SEG 46 2129).


Translations:
General:

Brooten, Bernadette. Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Maltomini, Franco. “Osservazioni al testo di alcuni papiri magici greci.” In: Miscellanea critica. Vol. 7. Florence: Teubner, 1980, p. 176.4

Wünsch, Richard. “Review of Omaggio della Società italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci in Egitto al quarto Convegno dei Classicisti tenuto in Firenze dal XVIII al XX aprile del MCMXI.” Berliner philologische Wochenschrift 32 (1912): 3-6.


Trismegistos ID:

92863

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

42

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

144

To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (25/10/2019); ST (4/11/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M486," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m486. Accessed on 26/04/2024

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