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KYPRIANOS M3823

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

GMA 1
YORYM : H20
York Museum ID 7146

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. 1-2: Text consisting of kharaktēres and voces magicae, perhaps applied amulet for protection or love spell.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

[non-linguistic]
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. 201 – 400
Date notes:

Kotansky (1994: p. 1). Date from 71-410 CE (collection website 8/11/2022).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/scripts/adlib_image.php?id=YORYM_H20.jpg

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Metal (gold)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 1.8 Width: 2.8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Kotansky (1994: p. 1).
Folding pattern:

1 horizontal crease.
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, 2 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Eburacum (York), Great Britain (Britannia)

(TM places ID: 13682)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Eburacum (York), Great Britain (Britannia) (?)

(TM places ID: 13682)
Present Location:

York, Yorkshire Museum
Collection History:

Found in situ in 1839/1840 in the Roman remains on the site of the Old Railway Station at the 4th century CE bath house during the excavations for the Old Railway Station (Kotansky 1994, 1).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 1881
Collection website: https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/collections/search/item/?id=7146&search_query=c2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9Z29sZCthbXVsZXQ%3D

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Barnwell, E. L. “The Carnarvon Talisman.” Archaeologia Cambrensis 10 (1879): 103-104.

Collingwood, R. G. and R. P. Wright. The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1965, p. 236-237, no. 706.

★ Kotansky, Roy. Greek Magical Amulets. The Inscribed Gold, Silver, Copper, and Bronze Lamellae. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994, p. 1-2, no. 1, pl. 1.
Translations:
General:

Boon, George C. “The Gold Brooch and Gold Phylactery from Segontium.” Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 21 (1964): 99.

Harris, Eve and John R. Harris. The Oriental Cults in Roman Britain. Leiden: Brill, 1965, p. 93-94.

Henig, Martin. Religion in Roman Britain. London: Batsford, 1995, p. 184-188.

Home, Gordon C. Roman York. The Legionary Headquarters and Colonia of Eboracum. London: E. Benn limited, 1924. (non vidi)

Kotansky, Roy. “A Silver Phylactery for Pain.” The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 11 (1983): 173.

Wellbeloved, Charles. Eburacum, or York under the Romans. England: Sunter & Sotheran, 1842, p. 133, pl. 17, no. 15.

“Roman York: Inscription, Sculptures and Architectural Fragments.” An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 1, Eburacum, Roman York. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1962, p. 133. British History Online. Web. 5 October 2022. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/york/vol1/pp111-135

Salway, Peter. Roman Britain. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981, p. 689.

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 (13/9/2022); ST (5/10/2022); ST (6/10/2022); KD (8/11/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M3823," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3823. Accessed on 19/05/2024

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