• KYP M3758

    Magical (?)No acquisition information.Black1. Ro ll. 1-9: Magical text (?) 2. Vo ll. 1-3: Text of unclear genre.Preliminary estimate based on hand and use of papyrus (KD 30/9/2025)501900Measurements from photograph (KD 30/9/2025)KD from data from Alin Suciu (10/12/2021); KD (30/9/2025)EgyptUnclear3758Egyptian (Coptic)PapyrusUnclear which side is recto and verso (i.e., which was written first); the two hands are different, so one is probably a later re-use.21 column each recto (→) and verso (↓ from perspective of recto). 9 preserved lines recto, 3 (?) surviving lines verso. Verso at 90° counterclockwise from recto.Oxford, Bodleian LibraryProvenance unknown.CopticBodleian MS. Copt. g. 40 (P)UnpublishedA single fragment, no margin fully preserved.26549493.8Egypt

  • KYP M3757

    Magical (applied ?)No acquisition information.Dark brown1. Ro ll. 1-24: Applied curse against man named Aprahim (?).Preliminary estimate based on hand and presence of Arabic name Aprahim (i.e. Ibrahim?) (KD 12/10/2023).642900Measurements from photograph by KD (12/10/2023).KD from data from Alin Suciu (10/12/2021); KD (12/10/2023)Egypt (?)1 vertical, 10 (?) horizontal creases.Sheet375719Egyptian (Coptic)Parchment11 column recto (flesh?), 24 lines and image tableau. There appears to be text on the verso, but this is probably ink from the front visible through the parchment.Oxford, Bodleian LibraryNo acquisition information.CopticBodleian MS. Copt. d. 254 (P)UnpublishedComplete, considerable damage along folds.26549499.9Egypt (?)

  • KYP M3756

    Proverbio, Delio V. “Un nuovo testimone copto del Responsum Christi ad Abgarum.” Miscellanea Marciana 12 (1997): 155-169 (155, siglum V) [tav. XV]) p. 1170.Magical (applied) (?)Unknown.1. Ro ll. 1-9: Letter of Jesus to Abgar (applied amulet for healing/protection ?).Willy Clarysse for TM (TM 16/12/2021).401600SahidicProverbio 1997: p. 155.KD (4/12/2021); MPS (16/12/2021); MPS (20/12/2021); KD (20/12/2021); MPS (14/1/2022)Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada)SheetBimodular, upright, Alexandrian majuscule (PAThs 16/12/2021)3756Egyptian (Coptic)Papyrus11 column recto (↓), ca. 9 surviving lines.Florence, Istituto Papirologico ’G. Vitelli’TM (16/12/2021).CopticPSI inv. C 55 Florence, Istituto Papirologico ’G. Vitelli’ PSI inv. C 55 C 55 PSI inv. C 55 (=V)Published.Fragmentary.290110131277427744.9Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada) (?)1170

  • KYP M3755

    Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 12A.Magical (applied) Incantation BowlPurchased from Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson in 1851 (collection website 29/11/2021).https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/709188001https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1851-1009-98Black1. Inside ll. 1-13: Incantation bowl for protecting a man named Mahperoz son of Hindu (מפירוז בר הינדו /מהפירוז בר הינדו) from curses and demons. The text is unclear, mentions judges and judgments.Coll. website (26/11/2021).5018004.4Jewish AramaicFrom collection website (26/11/2021)Information from the “Prosopography of magic bowls” by Ortal-Paz Saar entered by KD (29/11/2021)Iraq (Mesopotamia)Bowl3755117Aramaic (Jewish)PotteryThe name Mahperoz is Iranian, Mah-Peroz, meaning “Victorious Moon” (?) or “Victorious throughout the Moon” or “”Moon of (King) Peroz”. The matronym Hindu is…

  • KYP M3754

    Chaniotis, A., Corsten, T., Stroud, R.S. and Tybout, R.A., “SEG 57-297. Agios Ioannis Rentis. Curse tablets, date?”, in Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, edited by A.Chaniotis, T. Corsten, E. Stavrianopolou, and N. Papazarkadas, 2007 Lamont, Jessica L. “A New Commercial Curse Tablet from Classical Athens,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2015) 196: 159–74. ★ Lamont, Jessica L. “Crafting Curses in Classical Athens: A New Cache of Hexametric Katadesmoi”, Classical Antiquity 40.1 (2021), p. 76–117, no. 1. Petritaki, M. “ανασκαφικές εργασίες: Οδός Πειραιώς 131–133 και 137, Iδιοκτησία ΟΙΚΟΕΜ-Κα-αΤΕ, Ε. Τσακίρη.” Archaiologikon Deltion 56–59 B1 (2010) 449–51.Chaniotis, Angelos. “Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion 2010 (EBGR 2010).” Kernos 26 (2013): p. 288. Chaniotis, Angelos, Nikos E.…

  • KYP M3752

    Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 11A.Müller-Kessler, Christa. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002): p. 120.Müller-Kessler, Christa. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002): p. 120.Magical (applied) Incantation BowlPurchased from Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson in 1851 (collection website 26/11/2021).https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/709199001https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1851-1009-99Black1. Inside ll. 1-13, outside l. 1: Incantation bowl for protecting a man named Mahperoz son of Hindu (מהפירוז בר הנדו) from curses and demons. The text is unclear, mentions judges and judgements..Coll. website (26/11/2021).5018005.2Jewish AramaicFrom collection website (26/11/2021)Information from the “Prosopography of magic bowls” by Ortal-Paz Saar entered by KD…

  • KYP M3751

    Brashear, William M. “Ein neues Zauberensemble in München”, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 19 (1992): 79-109. Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 20. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 1997, p. 441-442, no. 14664.Wildung, in: Miinchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 1983, 210-211, und dort abgebildet (Abb. 14) . Wachsf iguren: As 6791, Papyrus: As 6792, Tontopf: As 6793Wildung, in: Miinchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 1983, 210-211, und dort abgebildet (Abb. 14) . Wachsf iguren: As 6791, Papyrus: As 6792, Tontopf: As 6793Jördens, Andrea. “Griechische Texte aus Ägypten.” In Omina, Orakel, Rituale und Beschwörungen Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Vol. 4. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008, p. 438-440, no. 5.5.4.Magical…

  • KYP M3750

    Ellis T. “Jewish Relics,” in Austin H. Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, John Murray, London, 1853, p. 518-519, no. 4. Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 10A.Müller-Kessler, Christa. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002): p. 120.Müller-Kessler, Christa. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002): p. 120.Magical (applied) Incantation BowlPurchased from Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson in 1851 (coll. website 25/11/2021).https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/709211001https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1851-1009-97Black1. Inside ll. 1-14, outside l. 1: Incantation bowl for protecting a man named Mahperoz son of Hindu (מהפירוז בר הנדו) from evil magic.Coll. website (25/11/2021).5018004.9Jewish AramaicFrom…

  • KYP M3749

    Chwolson, D. Corpus Inscriptionum Hebraicarum, St. Petersburg and Leipzig. 1882, p. 110. Jeruzalmi, Isak. Les coupes magiques Araméennes de Mésopotamie, PhD Thesis, Université de Paris. 1963, p. 52-63 Schwab, M. 1890. “Les coupes magiques et l’hydromancie dans l’antiquité orientale”, Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 12 (1890): p. 306. Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 9A.Müller-Kessler, Christa. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002): p. 120. Sokoloff, Michael. A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods. Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2002, Source Bo 115.Müller-Kessler, Christa. “Die Zauberschalensammlung…

  • KYP M3748

    Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 8A.Magical (applied) Incantation BowlPurchased from Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson in 1851 (coll. website 19/11/2021).https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/708671001https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1851-1009-951. ll. 1-10: Incantation bowl for protecting a man named Mahperoz son of Hindu (מפירוז בר הינדו /מהפירוז בר הינדו) from demons.Coll. website (18/11/2021).5018005.1Jewish AramaicFrom coll. website (18/11/2021)Information from the “Prosopography of magic bowls” by Ortal-Paz Saar entered by KD (19/11/2021)Iraq (Mesopotamia)Bowl3748117Aramaic (Jewish)PotteryThe name Mahperoz is Iranian, Mah-Peroz, meaning “Victorious Moon” (?) or “Victorious throughout the Moon” or “”Moon of (King) Peroz”. The matronym Hindu is Semitic, cf. the Arab female name Hind, but possibly cf. Hindu,…