P.Mich.inv. 1190 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 1190
- Processing Number
- 1328
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 29.9 cm. x 29.6 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-97
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- The sheet divided horizontally at the middle; only a few strips survive to join the two halves. Regularly cut at all sides. (TC)
- Palaeographic Description
- Stiff, unshaded, distinct, non-professional, of a general character often encountered in magical texts and elsewhere. The two columns on the recto are divided by a vertical stroke. Magical signs below the text. (TC)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- Vth century A.D.
- Origin
- Abydos, Upper Egypt, province of Egypt (?)
- Provenance
- Abydos, Upper Egypt, province of Egypt (?)
- Acquisition
- Acquired by Nahman - British Museum; Nos 1190-1201 were purchased from an appropriation by the Regents and received Jan. 5, 1922
- Language
- Coptic
- Genre
- subliterary; magic
- Author
- unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- invocation
- Content
- The author of this spell invokes a number of angels as allies.
- Subject Headings
- Incantations, Coptic--Egypt--Abydos (Extinct city)
- Pregnancy--Egypt--Abydos (Extinct city)
- Persons
- -
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- "I invoke thee, Athrak, great angel that standest at the right hand of the sun,
- To whom are subject all the Authorities of the sun:
- Go even to the shore of the Abyss.
- The silver, mayest thou slay it,
- The steel, mayest thou break it,
- The iron, mayest thou dissolve it,
- The stone, mayest thou split it,
- The waters of the sea, mayest thou dry them up,
- The mountains, and mayest thou move them,
- The rocks, mayest thou dissolve them,
- A pregnant woman, mayest thou split her right side and bring forth her child.
- I shall not ask thee, in fact, neither . . . . . but . . . . . . Sabaoth . . . . to her side . . . . . from the crown of her head down to the nails of her feet,
- And bring out from under her some polluted blood and some baneful fluid:
- Upon her right side, as far as her left side.
- Mayest thou make it weigh upon her like a millstone,
- May it strain through under her like the source of the Four Rivers.
- Be it wizard, be it enchanter,
- Be it heavenly, be it infernal,
- Be it hand of man:
- Find strength from this blood which is under so-and-so.
- So-and-so am I.
- I adjure thee, angel that standeth at the right hand of the father,
- Mayest thou come upon this side.
- I adjure thee, Gabriel, angel that standest at the left hand of the Father,
- Mayest thou come for me with thy fiery sword upon this side.
- I adjure thee, Adone, great angel that standest over the twelve hours of the day,
- Mayest thou come for me upon this side.
- I adjure thee, Uri, great angel that standest over the twelve hours of the night,
- I adjure thee, Boriel, thou of the face of fiery flame,
- I adjure thee .....el, angel that ...... anger .....,
- the keeper of Hell, the locks of whose hair are spread
- out over the whole world, whose name is Sisinaei the Amin,
- I adjure thee, Asparte, daughter of the Devil, that sprang down into Hell and brought up the keeper of Hell,
- I adjure you, the twelve archangels, your twelve bowls, full of water, being in your hands,
- At the time when I shall cast it into the fire may ye fill the twelve bowls with fire and cast them into her heart: her lung, her heart, her liver, her spleen, her hundred and twenty five members.
- I invoke you, ye seven archangels, which are these:
- Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Rakuel, Suriel, Asuel, Salafuel,
- And that thou even, Michael, come down upon this side,
- to give - not to hear, except the things of my mouth - and fulfill the wish of my heart, the demand of my soul.
- I will ford the Seven Rivers of fire,
- And run up to the Seventh Heaven,
- The Place in which Iao Sabaoth is seated.
- I shall find Michael, standing at the right hand of the Father . . . . Quickly! Quickly!"
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1328
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections Coptic Sounds Worrell WH 1934 145-50 Worrell WH, Coptic Sounds, 145-50, 1934 Orientalia 4 Worrell WH 1935 5-13 Worrell WH, Orientalia 4, 5-13, 1935
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 400
- Year End
- 499
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 7126 x 6265
- File Size
- 6 MB
- Record
- 1328
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1328/1190v.tif
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