Zodion and Praxis: An Illustrated Coptic Magical Papyrus in the Macquarie University Collection
The document presented here is a fragment of a magical text held in the papyrus collection of Macquarie University, Sydney. This fragment preserves a part of one or more magical recipes, perhaps for love, favour, and/or protection, as well as an image of two facing avian figures. This image shows af...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2018]
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Journal of Coptic studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 20, Pages: 11-56 |
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| Summary: | The document presented here is a fragment of a magical text held in the papyrus collection of Macquarie University, Sydney. This fragment preserves a part of one or more magical recipes, perhaps for love, favour, and/or protection, as well as an image of two facing avian figures. This image shows affinities with a number of similar tableaux from other texts of the same genre, and analysis of these images, alongside textual evidence, suggests that they may be understood as a representation of a ritual intended to unite two lovers. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1512 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Coptic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/JCS.20.0.3284653 |