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KYPRIANOS M3682

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

Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore inv. no. 57.1960

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. 1-45: Victory charm for Proclus son of Salvina in a trial before Diogenianus, the military Governor of Arabia, Pelagius, the assessor, Salvina and all his enemies (favour before authority).
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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:

Kotansky (1991: p. 42; 1994: p. 331).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Metal (gold)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.9 Width: 4.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Kotansky (1991: p. 42; 1994: p. 331). Collection website (24/7/2026) lists height as 7.9 cm, but the proportions of the image do not correspond to this size.
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, 45 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Bostra, Arabia

(TM places ID: 2987)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Bostra, Arabia (?)

(TM places ID: 2987)
Present Location:

Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore
Collection History:

Acquired by Robert Garrett of Baltimore (1875-1961) at unknown date; donated to the Walters Art Museum in 1964 (collection website).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website: https://art.thewalters.org/object/57.1960/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Kotansky, Roy. Greek Magical Amulets. The Inscribed Gold, Silver, Copper, and Bronze Lamellae. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994, p. 331-346, no. 58.

Kotansky, Roy. “Magic in the Court of the Governor of Arabia.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 88 (1991): 41-60.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID: PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae 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

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Edit History:

ST (4/10/2022); KD (24/7/2026)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M3682," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3682. Accessed on 03/10/2026
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