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KYPRIANOS M875

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

SM 49
Cologne, Papyrussammlung T. 1
Univ. Köln Inv. Nr. T. 1
SEG 38 1837
SEG 44 1490

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. 1-43 – Vo ll. 1-37: Love spell to make Matrona, daughter of Tagenes, love Theodoros, son of Tekhosis.
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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:

TM (20/3/2020); Jordan (1988: p. 245)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A83
Archive name: Oxyhrynchus Love Spell Dossier
State of edition:

Published.
Image: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/Magie/magie_01.html

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Metal (lead)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 15 Width: 9.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (21/3/2020); SM 1.49
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 recto with 43 lines, 1 column verso with 37 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Universität zu Köln, Cologne
Collection History:

Found in an inscribed clay pot together with another tablet. All three texts were written by the same hand and all are love spells meant to make a woman named Matrona fall in love with a man – Theodor (Jordan 1988: p. 246).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 172
Collection website: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/tm64308

Notes/Discussion:

Iambic trimeter and dactylic hexameter.
Engraved in lead.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 193-204, no. 49.

Faraone, Christopher A. “Notes on Three Greek Magical Texts.” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994): p. 81.

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

Wortmann, Dierk. “Neue Magische Texte.” Bonner Jahrbücher 68 (1968): 57–80.

Pleket, Henry W., and Stroud, Ronald S. “SEG 38-1837. Oxyrhynchos. Love charm, written on lead tablet, 3rd/4th cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 38 (SEG 38), edited by A. Chaniotis et al., 1988, no. 1837 (SEG 38 1837).

Pleket, Henry W. et al. “SEG 44-1490. Oxyrhynchos. Love charm, written on lead tablet , 3rd/4th cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 44 (SEG 44), edited by A. Chaniotis et al., 1994, no. 1490 (SEG 44 1490).
Translations:
General:

Cauderlier, Patrice. “Les tablettes grecques d’Égypte: Inventaire.” Bibliologia 12 (1992): p. 93, no. 315.

Gager, John G. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World. Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 94–97.

Jordan, David R. “A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 26.2 (1985): p. 189, no. 155.

Pleket, Henry W. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Vol. 44. Leiden: Brill, 1994 [1997], no. 1490.

Trismegistos ID:

64308

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

49

 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

01982.210
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

324

 To Zodion:
Edit History:

MP (20/2/2020); MP (21/2/2020); MP (23/2/2020); MPS (4/12/2020); KD (22/2/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M875," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m875. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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