A Coptic talisman – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A Coptic talisman comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A Coptic talisman
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A small amulet of Coptic origin, shown here as a woodcut, reflects the protective magic practiced among Christians in Egypt during the later centuries of the Roman period. It appears in Charles William King's *The Gnostics and Their Remains*, published in 1887, which placed such objects within the nineteenth-century European fascination with gnostic sects and their charms. Talismans of this kind often combined Christian invocations with older Greek and Egyptian symbols, and collectors valued them as evidence of how belief and folk protection intertwined. The details of the original object come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 1887 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut. |
| Notes | Woodcut in The Gnostics & their remains. 1887 Pl. N #2 BT 1390. K5. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,213 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106378 |
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