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KYPRIANOS M659

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

GMA 46
Noël Giron, Notes épigraphiques, 1910
Invaluable lot 62: Amulette Grec (13/10/2018)

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. 1-19: Healing and exorcistic amulet for Ioulianē.

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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. 151 – 250
Date notes:

Late second or early third century according to Kotansky (1994: p. 239). 4th cent. according to Collection Website (12/10/2018). 4th or 5th cent. according to Jalabert/Mouterde 1929.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/MonteCarlo/13/633013/H5211-L154415592.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Metal (silver)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 13 Width: 45 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Kotansky (1994: p. 239).

Folding pattern:

Appear to be 17 vertical folds.

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.

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto with drawing, 19 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Beroia (Aleppo), Syria

(TM places ID: 2211)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Beroia (Aleppo), Syria

(TM places ID: 2211)
Present Location:

Unknown

Collection History:

Belonged to the collection of N.-A Giron (1884-1941); announced for sale in Monte Carlo (Monaco) on 13 October 2018 on the site invaluable.com.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/amulette-grecque-B8A41D4A66

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Kotansky, Roy. Greek Magical Amulets. The Inscribed Gold, Silver, Copper, and Bronze Lamellae. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994, p. 239-244, no. 46.

Giron, Noël. “Notes épigraphiques (Damas, Alep, Orga”, Mélanges de la Faculté orientale de Beyrouth 5 (1910), 71-78.

Jalabert, L., and R. Mouterde. Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, vol. 1, Paris: Geuthner (1929), no. 220.


Translations:
General:

Mouterde, R. Le Glaive de Dardanos. Objets et inscriptions magiques de Syrie, Mélange Univ.-St.-Joseph 15 (1930-1931), Beirut, Imprimerie Catholique, p. 103-104, no. 30.


Trismegistos ID: 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 (12/10/2018); ST (8/1/2021); KD (15/2/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M659," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m659. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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