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KYPRIANOS M888

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

SM 65
SM II 65
Rome, Museo di Egitto e Vicino Oriente 181 / 665
Museo del Vicino Oriente, inv. 181/665

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. 1-37: Invocation of a deity.
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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. 201 – 300
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 71).
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: 8 Width: 16 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 71).
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.

1
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto. 37 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2774)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2774)
Present Location:

Rome, Museo di Egitto e Vicino Oriente
Collection History:
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 971
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Inscribe on a vessel used for divination. Original size of bowl was 6 cm in height and 33 cm in diameter. Text incised into wet clay (Daniel & Maltomini 1992: p. 71).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crisci, Igionio. “Testo magico.” Antinoe (1965-1968). Missione archeologica in Egitto dell’Università di Roma, 1974, p. 121-122.

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 71-75, no. 65.
Translations:
General:

Jordan, David. “A Prayer Copied by Dioskoros of Kômê Aphroditês (PGM 13a).” Tyche. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 16 (2001).

Trismegistos ID:

92332

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

65

 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 To Zodion:
Edit History:

ST (13/12/2020); MPS (14/12/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M888," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m888. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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