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KYPRIANOS M878

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

SM 52
SB XII 11247
SB 12 11247
Paris, Louvre AF 6716
T. Louvre inv. AF 6761

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. 1-15 – Vo ll. 1-9: Curse against Senblynpnos.

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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. 1 – 100
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 3).

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

Published.

Image: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010003436

Form:

Tablet

Material:

Wood

Dimensions (cm): Height: 13.5 Width: 5.5 Depth: 0.5
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 3).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, damaged during cleaning process (Boyaval 1974: p. 71).

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. 24 lines, 15 recto, 9 lines verso.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Paris, Louvre

Collection History:

Discovered in February 1969 at the Département des Antiquités Egyptiennes du
Louvre. Possible connection with Mariette’s excavations (Daniel & Maltomini 1992: p. 3, note 1; Boyaval 1974: p. 71).

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/cl010003436

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bevilacqua, Gabriella. Scrittura e Magia. Un Repertorio di Oggetti Iscritti della Magia Greco-Romana. Opuscula Epigraphica 12. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2010, p. 49-50.

Boyaval, Bernard. “Une malédiction pour viol de sépulture.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 14 (1974): 71-73 (includes image).

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 3-7, no. 52.

Horsley, Greg H. R. New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity. Vol. 2. Sydney: Macquarie University, 1977, no. 13.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 12 (SB 12). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1977, no. 11247.


Translations:
General:

Bernard, Legras. Lire en Égypte, d’Alexandre à Islam. Paris: Picard, 2002, p. 76.

Cauderlier, Patrice. “Les tablettes grecques d’Égypte: Inventaire.” Bibliologia 12 (1992): p. 93, no. 307.


Trismegistos ID:

32622

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

52

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

270

To Zodion:
Edit History:

ST (6/12/2020); MPS (7/12/2020); KD (1/10/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M878," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m878. Accessed on 16/05/2024

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