P.Mich.inv. 4932 / Verso

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 4932

Processing Number

2349

Section/Side

F;

Image Side

Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto + Verso

Connections

-

Material

Par

Size

14.4 x 13.2 cm.

Items

1

Lines

1-30

Mounted

Yes

Negative

No

Conservation Status

Regularly cut at the top and to the right. Five horizontal folds still visible, and most of the bottom panel is now lost. (TC)

Palaeographic Description

The script is rather large and regular. E andS often have a straight back, and the o is rather small.

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

IV/VI A.D.

Origin

unknown

Provenance

unknown

Acquisition

1926/1927; Acquired by Bell and Westermann from Nahman

Language

Coptic

Genre

subliterary; magic

Author

unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

love charm

Content

The text consists of a paragogic love charm, differing from others in that its purpose is honest love and matrimony. The personified oil which is invoked probably is represented by actual oil employed by the sorcerer.

Subject Headings

Charms--Egypt.

Love--Egypt.

Persons

-

Geographica

-

Translation

" (Recto):

Oil, Oil, Oil, holy Oil,

Oil that flows from under the throne of Iao Sabaoth,

Oil with which Isis anointed the bones of Osiris,

I cry to thee, Oil,

The sun and the moon cry to thee,

The stars of heaven cry to thee,

I desire to send thee.

Mayest thou come, and let me bring thee, and mayest thou bring so-and-so to me, me, so-and-so,

And make my love arise in her heart, and hers in mine, in the manner of a brother and a sister .....

I desire to beget her children.

Truly, truly I adjure thee,

The one whose head is in the heaven,

His foot being in the abyss.

In front of him being (what is) under the Sheep,

Behind him being under Draco,

The one in whose presence the heaven of all darkness is suspended ......."

(Verso):

"I shall tear out with an iron,

I shall dissolve it.

Nay, my Lord,

Do not give me into the hand of Dimelouchs,

Who (presides) over the Judgment.

Rather do I desire thee to go down to Hell.

And tear out all the thoughts of the Devil with reference to anyone, so-and-so,

And make my love arise in her heart and hers in mine:

It is I who cry,

It is thou who excutest the wish."

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
Orientalia 4	Worrell WH	1935	184-7	Worrell WH, Orientalia 4, 184-7, 1935

Cataloging

Cataloger

TC

Year Begin

300

Year End

599

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

4684 x 4252

File Size

3 MB

Record

2349

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