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KYPRIANOS M876

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

SM 50
Cologne, Papyrussammlung T. 2
T. Köln inv. 2
SEG 38 1838
SEG 40 1574

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. 1-38 – Vo ll. 1-34: Applied love spell to make Matrona, daughter of Tagene, love Theodoros, son of Tekhosis.

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Language(s):

Greek

Script(s):

Geek

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:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 205).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A83
Archive name: Oxyhrynchus Love Spell Dossier
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/DS_d1e33963/img/t_002/orig/T2rueck.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Metal (lead)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 15 Width: 6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (6/12/2020).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete.

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. 72 lines, 38 lines on recto, 34 lines on verso.

Hand:

Semi-cursive

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

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

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Cologne, Papyrussammlung

Collection History:
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/tm105083

Notes/Discussion:

SM 49-51 were written by the same hand (Daniel & Maltomini 1990: p. 193).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 193, and p. 205-210, no. 50.

Pleket, Henry W., and Stroud, Ronald S. “SEG 38-1838. 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 1838).

Pleket, Henry W., and Stroud, Ronald S. “SEG 40-1574. Oxyrhynchos. Love charm, written on a lead tablet, 3rd/4th cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 40 (SEG 40), edited by A. Chaniotis et al., 1990, no. 1574 (SEG 40 1574).

Wortmann, Dierk. “Neue Magische Texte.” Bonner Jahrbücher 168 (1968): 64-67, no. 2.


Translations:
General:

Jordan, David R. “A Love Charm with Verses.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 72 (1988): 246, no. 3.

Jordan, David R. “A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 26.2 (1985): 189, no. 156.

Martinez, David G. “T. Köln inv. 2.25 and Erotic δαμάζειν.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 83 (1990): 235-236.


Trismegistos ID:

105083
65820

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

50

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

325

To Zodion:
Edit History:

ST (6/12/2020); MPS (7/12/2020); KD (22/2/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M876," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m876. Accessed on 16/05/2024

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