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What-Are-The-Greek-Magical-Papyri-Final-Quiz

What are the Greek Magical Papyri? – Final Tests & Quizzes

Welcome to the final quizzes & tests, I hope you enjoyed your journey so far! Now here is one quiz or test for each of…

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A Good Potion, PGM VII, 969-972

A Good Potion, PGM VII, 969-972

This is a spell for a love potion preserved in the Greek ritual manual PGM VII, 969-972. The title of the ritual and the initial…

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Stêlê of Aphroditê, PGM VII, 215-218

Stêlê of Aphroditê, PGM VII, 215-218

This multi-purpose spell  is preserved in the Greek ritual manual PGM VII, 215-218. Stêlê of Aphroditê For gaining friendship (philia), favour (charis), success (praxis), and…

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PGM LVII - P. Mich in. 534 - A cryptographic Greek ritual manual

PGM LVII – P. Mich in. 534

Source: University of Michigan Library, Digial Collections https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2437/534R.TIF  

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PGM CXI - P. Wash.Univ. inv. 139

PGM CXI – The earliest known Greek magical(?) papyrus

Rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Image source: WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/papyri-collection/item/8039

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Chronological Order of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts: Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead

All of these funerary texts contain spells to protect the deceased in the afterlife. I made a more detailed video about these three funerary texts,…

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A Coptic Prayer About the Power of Magic

This quote from a prayer preserved in a Coptic magic book from Egypt provides interesting details about how the practitioner understood ancient magic. It preserves…

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Papyrus 121 (3), PGM VII, 579-590

An amulet against daimons and every sickness and suffering: PGM VII, 579-590

There are two types of amulets attested in the Greek magical papyri: embedded amulets and independent amulets. Embedded amulets were used during a superordinate ritual,…

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Walters Art Musem 54.540 Bes-Pantheos

A Polymorphic Bes Statuette

This bronze statuette shows a composite deity who has the attributes of various different gods: the face of the god Bes, the twin plumes and…

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BM EA37450 Sobek

The Crocodile God Sobek

The crocodile was particularly feared because not only did it kill, it ate the body of its victim without which there could be no afterlife.…

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