Most excellent Restrainer of anger (θυμοκάτοχον), Favour securer (χαριτήσιον) and Victory gainer (νικητικόν) in the courts
PGM XXXVI, 35-68 (papyrus scroll)
4th century, Greek, Egypt (Fayum?)
University of Oslo Library, Papyrus Collection, P. Oslo I, 1
Photo: © University of Oslo Library, Papyrus Collection, P. Oslo I, 1 (with kind permission)
This is one of the around 100 ancient Greek and Egyptian ritual instructions comprising magic signs. My new edition of the text including a discussion of the magic signs is part of my “Sourcebook of Ancient Magic Signs” on which I am currently working.
Editions
- First edition (including the Greek text): Samson Eitrem, Papyri Osloënses I, Magical Papyri (Oslo 1925), page 6. Link: https://archive.org/details/papyriosloensesunse/page/n7/mode/2up
- Karl Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae – Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri, vol. 2 (Leipzig/Berlin 1974), pp. 164, no. 36.
- Hock in: Hans Dieter Betz (ed.), The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, including the Demotic Spells (Chicago 1996), 269-270.
- Kirsten Dzwiza, Schriftverwendung in Antiker Ritualpraxis, vol. 2 (Heidelberg, Erfurt 2014), 542-544, SAP-G-VUYA-GB.a-005.
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