The database now includes all entries for the Greek magical texts from Supplementum Magicum(SM), published by Robert Daniel and Franco Maltomini.
The manuscripts table now also contains links to the database To Zodion, directed by Raquel Martín Hernández, and containing copies and descriptions of drawings from magical texts.
5 new edited texts, bringing the total to 27. These include:
…the three texts of P. Mil. Vogl. Copt. 3, which contains another interesting love spell calling upon the traditional Egyptian deities Isis, Osiris and Apis; our new edition was produced in collaboration with Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin, who recently completed a doctoral thesis on these texts.
…a beautiful limestone amulet
now held in the National Museum in Scotland which contains two prayers
written by the monk Frange who lived in a pharaonic tomb near Thebes in
the early eighth century.
…a very strange curse invoking a scorpion, held in the Pushkin museum in Moscow.
We are aware that the archives page was not showing for some users; this problem should now be fixed.
In other news, we’ve added a new bibliography for Greek magical texts, which, like our existing bibliography for Coptic magical texts,
contains many links to useful online books and articles. Although the
Greek-language bibliography is not yet complete, we’ll be updating both
over time, as well as adding new bibliographies to reflect the growth of
the Kyprianos database.
We’d like to wish all of our readers happy and healthy end of year holidays, and a good start to 2021!
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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