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KYPRIANOS M882

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

SM 58
SM II 58
SM 2 58
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1129
OBodl II 2180r
O. Bodl. 2 2180

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (formulary)
Documentary (account)
Contents:

Original use (?):

1. Concave: Account of corn and wine

Re-use (?):

2. Convex ll.1-11: Spell to restrain anger and for victory (silencing curse)
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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. 301 – 500
Date notes:

GEMF (11/7/2019)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

Ostracon (pottery)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 12.8 Width: 16 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel and Maltomini 1992: p. 43.
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.

1
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column verso (convex, re-use), 1 column recto (concave, original use).
Hand:

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 263
Collection website:

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. 40-41.

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 44-45, no. 58.

Tait, John Gavin and Préaux, Claire. Greek Ostraca in the Bodleian Library at Oxford II (O. Bodl. 2). London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1955, p. 390, no. 2180.
Translations:
General:

Martin Hernández, Raquel, and Torallas Tovar, Sofìa. “The Use of the Ostracon in Magical Practice in Late Antique Egypt.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 80 (2014): p. 735 no. 5.

Trismegistos ID:

92334
93083

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

58

 GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 79 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

310

 To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (17/5/2019); KD (11/12/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M882," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m882. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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