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KYPRIANOS M873

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

SM 47
SEG 26 1717
SEG 39 1693
Paris, Louvre E 27145

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. 1-28: Applied love spell to make Ptolemais, daughter of Horigenes love Sarapammon, son of Area.
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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. 179).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010044394

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Metal (lead)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 11 Width: 11 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 179).
Folding pattern:

Numerous horizontal creases.
State of preservation:

Complete, with some damage. Hole in lead between lines 22 and 23.
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, 28 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Middle Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2800)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Middle Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2800)
Present Location:

Paris, Louvre
Collection History:

Purchased by the Louvre from Dimitrios Alkis Mathéos in 6/3/1975 (coll. website 1/10/2021).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 274
Collection website: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010044394

Notes/Discussion:

Found with nude female clay figure in kneeling position bound and pierced with 13 pins in an earthenware pot. Textual and ritual parallel to PGM IV.296-328 (T2378).

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 179-183, no. 47.

Horsley, Greg H. R. New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity. Vol. 8. Sydney: Macquarie University, 1976, p. 33-36, no. 8.

Kambitsis, Sophie. “Une nouvelle tablette magique d’Égypte. Musée du Louvre, inv. E 27145 – IIIe/IVe siècle [avec 2 planches].” Le bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 76 (1976): 213-223.

Pleket, Henry W., and Stroud, Ronald S. “SEG 26-1717. Antinooupolis (area of). Love-charm, 3rd-4th cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 26 (SEG 26), edited by A. Chaniotis et al., 1976-1977, no. 1717 (SEG 26 1717).

Pleket, Henry W., and Stroud, Ronald S. “SEG 39-1693. Antinooupolis (area of). Love-charm, 3rd/4th cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 39 (SEG 39), edited by A. Chaniotis et al., 1989, no. 1693 (SEG 39 1693).
Translations:
General:

Cauderlier, Patrice. “Les tablettes grecques d’Égypte: Inventaire.” Bibliologia 12 (1992): p. 93, no. 302.

Du Bourguet, Pierre. “Ensemble magique de la période romaine en Égypte.” Revue du Louvre et des musées de France 25 (1975): 255-257.

Du Bourguet, Pierre. “Une ancêtre des figurines d’envoûtement percées d’aiguilles, avec ses compléments magiques, au musée du Louvre.” In: Livre du Centenaire 1880-1980 (MIFAO 104), edited by Jean Vercoutter, 1980, p. 225-238.

Jordan, David R. “A Love Charm with Verses.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 72 (1988): 245-259.

Maltomini, Franco. “PGM IV 354-55 (e paralleli) e fragmentum Grenfellianum 18-19.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 78 (1989): 96, no. 7.

Németh, György. “The Corpse Daemon Antinoos”, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 14.1 (2013): 145-153.

Trismegistos ID:

92866
104554

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

47

 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

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Edit History:

KD (25/10/2019); ST (5/12/2020); MPS (7/12/2020); EL (8/12/2020); KD (9/12/2020); KD (1/10/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M873," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m873. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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