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Magical text
Description
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.
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 64481.
Each record below describes this same ancient text from a different angle.
- Magic APIS-papyrus Fay�m4th century A.D
Cross-references (2)
- TM-Text 64481 primary
- APIS-Text oslo.apis.43 tier-1
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.
- Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri.
- find site — from APIS-papyrus, TM-Text 64481 (see that record)