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KYPRIANOS M872

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

SM 46
SM I 46
Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE 48217
SB 4 7452
SB IV 7452
SEG 8 574

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.1-27: Applied love spell for Posidonios, son of Thsenoubasthis, against Heronous, daughter of Ptolemais.
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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 (1990: p. 174).
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: 16 Width: 22 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel and Maltolmini 1990: p. 174.
Folding pattern:

6 (?) horizontal creases, 2 (?) vertical creases.
State of preservation:

Complete, some damage to upper part.
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, 27 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Haueris (Hawara), Egypt

(TM places ID: 747)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Haueris (Hawara), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 747)
Present Location:

Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Collection History:

Excavated by sebakhin at Hawara (Edgar 1925).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 73
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Text parallel to PGM IV.296-202 (M3, T2378).

Two small holes about 1 cm apart between ll. 11-12, and a similar pair in middle of l. 19, perhaps indicaing piercing with a nail (Daniel and Maltolmini 1990: p. 174).

Two figurines are displayed with the piece in the Egyptian Museum, but they were not found with it (Edgar 1925: p. 42).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bilabel, Friedrich. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten IV (SB IV). Heidelberg, 1931, no. 7452.

★ Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 174-178, no. 46.

Edgar, Campbell C. “A Love Charm from the Fayum.” Bulletin de la Société archéologique d’Alexandrie 21 (1925): 42-47.

Hondius, J.J.E.. “SEG 8-574. Fayum. Hawara. Defixio amatoria, s. IIIp.” In Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 8 (SEG 8), edited by Louis Robert, Marcus Niebuhr Tod, and Erich Ziebarth. 1937.
Translations:
General:

Cauderlier, Patrice. “Tablettes grecques.” In Les Tablettes à écrire de l’Antiquité à l’Époque moderne. Actes du colloque international du CNRS, Paris, Institut de France, 10-11 octobre 1990, organisé par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des textes sous la présidence de son directeur L. Holtz et par l’Institut de Papyrologie de la Sorbonne sous la présidence de son directeur A. Blanchard (Bibliologia 12). Brepols: Turnhout, 1992, p. 93, no. 306.

Jocelyn, H. D. “A Greek Indecency and its Students ‘Λαικαζειν’.” In Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 26 (206) (1980): p. 20-21.

Jordan, David R. “A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 26.2 (1985): p. 188-189, no. 153.

Pleket, Henry W. and Ronald S. Stroud, “SEG 30-1742. Fayum (Arsinoe). Love charm, 3rd cent. A.D.” In Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 30 (SEG 30), edited by Henry W. Pleket and Ronald S. Stroud, 1980.

Pleket, Henry W. and Ronald S. Stroud, “SEG 38-1691. Fayum (Arsinoe). Love charm, 3rd cent. A.D.” In Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 38 (SEG 38), edited by Henry W. Pleket and Ronald S. Stroud, 1988.

Preisendanz, Karl. “Eine neue Zaubertafel aus Ägypten.” Gnomon 2 (1926): 191-192.

Trismegistos ID:

8723

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

46

 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

322

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Edit History:

KD (25/10/2019); MPS (5/12/2020); KD (22/2/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M872," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m872. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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