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KYPRIANOS M970

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

PGM O 1
P. Ross. Georg. 5 3
SB XVIII 13169
SB 18 13169
Previously London, Private collection Hilton Price number unknown
O. Crum 522

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. 1-13: Applied spell to cause Hori, son of Maria, to not speak against Hatros, son of Taesis (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. 601 – 700
Date notes:

TM (4/7/2020).

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: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

No dimensions given in publications.

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, recto. 13 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hermopolis (El-Eshmunein), Egypt

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

Unknown

Collection History:

Previously London, Private collection Hilton Price number unknown (TM 11/7/2020).

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

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2 (2nd ed). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 233, no. O1.

Crum, Walter E. Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Cairo Museum and others. London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902, no. 522.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 18. (SB XVIII). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993, no. 13169.

Zerteli, Grigol et al. Papyri Russischer und georgischer Sammlungen. Vol. 5. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1935, no. 3.


Translations:
General:

Faraone, Christopher A. “Thumos as Masculine Ideal and Social Pathology in Ancient Greek Magical Spells.” In Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, edited by S. Braund and G. Most (“Yale Classical Studies”, 32), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003, 150-151.

Martín 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): 795.

Wilcken, Ulrich. “Die Berliner Papyrusgrabungen in Herakleopolis Magna im Winter 1898/9.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 2 (1903): 173.


Trismegistos ID:

64315

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

O 1

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum 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

752

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

41

TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum

581

To Zodion:
Edit History:

ST (4/7/2020); ST (11/7/2020); KD (15/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M970," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m970. Accessed on 19/05/2024

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