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KYPRIANOS M3731

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

Museum of London inv. no. 941

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

Magical (applied)
Contents:

1. ll. 1-30: Amulet invoking Iao and Phoebos for the protection of Demetrios against plague.
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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. 165 – 200
Date notes:

Last third of the second century according to Jones 2014.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Metal (pewter=tin/lead alloy)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 4.8 Width: 1.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Dimensions in Tomlin 2014. 1.3 (W) by 5 (H) cm on collection website.
Folding pattern:

1 vertical crease, multiple horizontal creases.
State of preservation:

Complete, some damage.
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, 30 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

London, Britain

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Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot: (TM places ID: )
Present Location:
Collection History:

Found in situ in London, now held in the Museum of London (Tomlin 2014).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website: https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/423977.html

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Jones, Christopher P. “An Amulet from London and Events Surrounding the Antonine Plague”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 29 (2016): 469.472.

Tomlin, Roger S.O. “‘Drive Away the Cloud of Plague’: A Greek Amulet from Roman London”, in Studies of the Peoples and Objects on the Roman Frontier presented to Lindsay Allason-Jones, edited by Rob Collins and Frances McIntosh. Oxford: 2014, p. 197-205.
Translations:
General:

Perdrizet, Paul. “Une inscription d’Antioche qui reproduit un oracle d’Alexandre d’Abonotichos”, Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 47.1 (1903), 62-66.

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 To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (28/9/2021)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M3731," 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-m3731. Accessed on 19/10/2026
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