"Your City Is Memphis": a magical formulary with a prose hymn

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Abstract

First edition of a papyrus offered for sale by Erik von Scherling ca. 1948/1949 and advertised in the bulletin Rotulus, now in the Duke University Library (P.Duk. inv. 751; ex-P.Robinson 9). The text, as already identified by von Scherling, proves to be a fragment of a magical formulary with portions of instructions for ritual preparations and an invocation in the form of a prose hymn, the procedure possibly relating to a magical genre of invocations seeking favor (χαριτήσια).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)23-31
Number of pages9
JournalBulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
Volume58
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Erik von Scherling
  • invocation
  • magic
  • prose hymn
  • χαριτήσιον

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