Monday, August 08, 2022

Coptic magical stories and Aramaic incantation bowls

THE COPTIC MAGICAL PAPYRI BLOG: Kyprianos Update (10 July 2022).
We’ve just posted our latest update to the Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects.

The update includes:

36 new manuscript entries, bringing the total to 1059. These contain new Greek, Coptic, Demotic, and Aramaic manuscripts from Egypt and elsewhere dating to the first millennium CE. ...

There are also new text entries, with some Christian-apocrypha-like narratives, and new archive entries pertaining to Aramaic incantation bowls.

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