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KYPRIANOS M973

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PGM O 5

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. 1-7: Binding of the tongue
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. -400 – -301
Date notes:

TM (29/9/2020)
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)
Material:

Ostracon (pottery)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 4.5 Width: 5.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Letter height 0.4 cm (Belousov 2014: p. 64).
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, 7 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Olbia (Parutino), Scythia, Ukraine

(TM places ID: 451)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Olbia (Parutino), Scythia, Ukraine (?)

(TM places ID: 451)
Present Location:

St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum
Collection History:

Number in the Hermitage Museum unknown. Found in a tomb outside city walls (Belousov 2014: p. 64).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 316
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Belousov, Alexey. To the new edition of one magic ostrakon from Olbia. ΕΛΕΝΕΙΑ (FS E. Ermolaeva). Petropoli, 2014, p. 63-67.

Diehl, Erich. “Defixionum ostraca duo.” Acta Universitatis Latviensis 6 (1923): 225-227.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 235, no. O 5.

Stephani, Ludolf. Compte-rendu de la Commission archéologique pour l’année 1874, p. 106-107.

Thomsen, P. In Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift. Vol. 44. Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1924, p. 1157–1152.
Translations:
General:

Dubois, Laurent. Inscriptions grecques dialectales d’Olbia du Pont. Hautes études du monde gréco-romain 22. Genève: Droz, 1996, no. 108.

Pfister, F. In Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift. Vol. 45. Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1925, p. 381.

Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. Vol. 3, p. 595.

Winreich, Otto. “Gesamtantike und griechische Relgion 1915 (1914)- 1924 (1925).” Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 23 (1925): p. 127.

Trismegistos ID:

65796

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

O 5

 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 Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (29/9/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M973," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m973. Accessed on 04/05/2025

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