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KYPRIANOS M899

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

SM 89
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum O. Gr. 217
O. Ashm. Shelton 194

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Convex ll. 1-4: For healing/protection from scorpion stings.
2. Convex ll. 5-10: For healing/protection from scorpion stings.
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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 – 400
Date notes:

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 194).
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: 9 Width: 10 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 194).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Broken on all sides.
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 on convex side, 10 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
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:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990-1992, p. 194-195, no. 89.

Shelton, John C. Greek Ostraca in the Ashmolean Museum: From Oxyrhynchus and Other Sites (O. Ashm. Shelton). Florence: Gonnelli, 1988, p. 140-141, no. 194.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

69046

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

89

 GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 67 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

06000.000
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)"

82

 TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (18/5/2019); KD (8/12/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M899," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m899. Accessed on 29/04/2025

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