Notes on Magical Papyri: Part II

Michael W. Zellmann-Rohrer

doi:10.1080/00397679.2025.2462410

Notes on Magical Papyri: Part II

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This article completes the author’s series of notes on magical papyri begun in Symbolae Osloenses 96 (2022). New readings and further discussion of content and context, touching on the history of science (medicine, astrology) and religion (Christianity), as well as provisional texts and translations, are offered for eight finished products of magical ritual from Egypt of the Roman and Late Ancient periods on papyrus and other materials (O.Moen inv. 631; PGM XXXIII and XLIII; PGM P 5b, P 6c, P 10, and P 16; Suppl.Mag. II 52). A documentary text on the same sheet as one of them (P.Oxy. VII 1059 back descr.) is given a first full edition.

Original language	English
Number of pages	52
Journal	Symbolae Osloenses
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00397679.2025.2462410
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 6 May 2025

Keywords

amulet
astrology
Christianity
invocation
magical papyri

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