magical amulet against fever addressed to a deity called Kok Kouk Koul and preceded by a magical word repeated with the successive omission of the first and last letters, so as to form an inverted triangle, reading the same across or down one side and up the other. Below triangle are six additional lines.
Title
Magical amulet
Full Collection Name
Tebtunis Papyri
Type
Image
Extent
1 item
Other Physical Details
papyrus, incomplete, mounted in glass
Dimensions
13.5 x 9.4 cm.
Language
In Greek.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
24 lines (lines one through 18 forming inverted triangle), written on recto across the fibers.
In cursive hand.
The pattern of the holes in this papyrus makes clear that the papyrus was rolled up from the top down.
Verso: empty.
Note
This charm has a close similarity to a papyrus found at Heracleopolis, now lost, but published by Wilcken in Archiv, v. 1, p. 420-427 and BGU 956.
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