Magical amulet

Tebtunis Papyri

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papyrus, incomplete, mounted in glass

13.5 x 9.4 cm.

In Greek.

The Bancroft Library

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.

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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