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| Inventory number: |
P.Oslo inv. 434 |
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Background and Physical Properties
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| Material: |
Pap |
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| Size: |
20.7 x 12.7 cm. |
| Lines: |
21 |
| Publication side: |
Recto, the Verso is blank |
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| Date: |
IVth century A.D. |
| Origin: |
Unknown place, province of Egypt |
| Provenance: |
Unknown place, province of Egypt |
| Acquisition: |
Acquired from Maurice Nahman 1923 through British Museum |
| Language: |
Greek |
| Genre: |
Sub-literary |
| Author: |
Allous |
| Title / Type of text: |
Magical text |
| Content: |
The text is a love charm with figures. It contains the magic words to be pronounced, and an adjuration to attract Herakles to Allous. Of the two drawn figures, the one to the left is that of the dwarf-god Bes. |
| Subject headings: |
Subliterature; Love charm; Magic |
| Persons: |
Herakles, son of Taepis?;
Taepis?, mother of Herakles;
Allous, daughter of Alexandria;
Alexandria,mother of Allous |
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| Translation: |
I adjure you by the twelve elements of heaven and the twenty-four elements of the world, that you attract Herakles whom [Ta]epis bore, to me, to Allous, whom Alexandria bore, immediately, immediately; quickly, quickly. |
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Not available
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Information on Publication: |
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| Series and Volume: |
P.Oslo I 4 |
| First Editor: |
Eitrem S |
| Year: |
1925 |
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| Corrections: |
Schmidt KFW, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen 189 (1927) p. 463 (l. 21) |
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| Bibliography: |
Papyri Graecae Magicae, ed. Karl Preisendanz, vol II (1931), no. XXXIX
The Greek magical papyri in translation, ed. Hans Dieter Betz, Chicago 1986, p. 278-279 |
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