P.Mich.inv. 7 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 7
- Processing Number
- 3066
- Section/Side
- Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Verso; Recto (unpublished): accounts (first half of the IIIrd cent. A.D.?)
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 15.2 x 14.2 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Col. I - 30;
- col. II - 22
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Broken off on the top, left, right, bottom
- Palaeographic Description
- a crude script inclining slightly to the cursive (C. Bonner)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- (Late) IIIrd or early IVth century A.D.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Acquisition
- purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Subliterary: Magic
- Author
- Unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Magical Charms
- Content
- Collection of magical charms from rather diverse origins, but related to the underworld goddess Hecate
- Translation
- (Col. I)
- [- - - This] name [is] a favor charm, a charm to dissolve a spell, a phylactery, and a victory charm: "AA EMPTOKOM BASYM, protect me."
- Charm of Hecate Ereschigal against fear of punishment (in the underworld): If he (a punishment daimon) comes forth, say to him: "I am Ereschigal, the one holding her thumbs, and not even one evil can befall her."
- If however he comes close to you, take hold of your right heel and recite the following: "Ereschigal, virgin, bitch, serpent, wreath, key, herald's wand, golden sandal of the Lady of Tartaros." And you will avert him.
- "ASKEI KATASKEI ERON OREON IOR MEGA SAMNYER BAUI (3 times) PHOBANTIA SEMNE, I have been initiated, and I went down into the [underground] chamber of the Dactyls, and I saw the other things down below, virgin, bitch, and all the rest." Say it at the crossroad, and turn around and flee, because it is at those places that she appears. Saying it late at night, about what you wish, it will reveal it in your sleep; and if you are led away to death, say it while scattering seeds of sesame, and it will save you.
- "PHORBA PHORBA BRIMO AZZIEBYA". Take bran of first quality and sandal-wood and vinegar of the sharpest sort and mold a cake. And write the name of so-and-so upon it, and inscribe it in such a way that you speak over it into the light the name of Hecate, and this: "Take away his sleep from such-and-such a person", and he will be sleepless and worried.
- Against fear and to dissolve spells: Speak through [two] knives [sounding loudly] this formula: but [against] evil animals it does not work [compellingly], for [- - -]
- (Col. II too fragmentary to be translated)
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3066
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich III Bonner C 1936 154 Bonner C, PMich III, 154, 1936 PGM II Preisendanz K 1973 LXX Preisendanz K, PGM II, LXX, 1973
Information on Publications--Further Republications
- Further Republications
- D Jordan, ZPE 136 (2001), 186-193.
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- K.F.W. Schmidt, GGA 199 (1937) 149-150; H.D. Betz, History of Religions 19 (1980) p. 287-295; H.D. Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (Chicago - London, 1992 [2]) p. 297-298; D.R. Jordan, ZPE 72 (1988) p. 255-258; H.D. Betz, Hellenismus und Urchristentum (Tuebingen, 1990) p. 147-155
Availability/System Requirements
- Scanner Initials
- CT
- Date Scanned
- 6/6/1996
- Institution
- sr
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 300
- Year End
- 399
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2320 x 3000
- File Size
- 926 KB
- Record
- 3066
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3066/7v_b.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 7; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3066/7v_b.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.