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KYPRIANOS M883

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

Uppsala, University Library Pap. Gr. 8
SM 59

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro, Vo ll.1-19: Applied curse for Sabinos against Severine, his daughter, and Didymos.

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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. 501 – 600
Date notes:

Daniel and Maltomini 1992: p. 50.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A56
Archive name: Sabinos Curse Dossier
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 32.5 Width: 16 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel and Maltomini 1992: p. 50.

Folding pattern:

Seems to have been folded (Daniel and Maltomini 1992: p. 50).

State of preservation:

Well preserved, some damage.

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 (↓). 18 lines recto, 1 lines verso.

Hand:

Findspot:

Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1589)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1589)
Present Location:

Uppsala, University Library

Collection History:

Purchased on the antiquities market prior to 1938 (Björck 1938: p. 5 n. 1).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 343
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Björck, Gudmund. Der Fluch des Christen Sabinus (Pap. Upsaliensis 8). Uppsala: Almqvist et Wiksell, 1938, p. 6-7 et passim.

★ Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 49-51, no. 59.

David, M. and B. A. van Groningen. Papyrological Primer. Leiden: Brill, 1965, no. 71.


Translations:
General:

Bell, Harold Idris. “Review of Gudmund Björck, Der Fluch des Christen Sabinus. Papyrus Upsaliensis 8.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 59 (1939): p. 327.

Stegemann, Viktor. “Review of Gudmund Björck, Der Fluch des Christen Sabinus. Papyrus Upsaliensis 8.” Gnomon 16 (1940): p. 87.


Trismegistos ID:

65108

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

59

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

1000

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

78

TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum

311

To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (25/3/2019); KD (11/12/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M883," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m883. Accessed on 16/05/2024

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