These
contain new Greek, Coptic, Demotic, and Aramaic manuscripts from Egypt
and elsewhere dating to the first millennium CE. We are particularly
grateful to Anne Sieberichs, who is currently responsible for entering
manuscripts from a checklist of Aramaic incantation bowls prepared by Ortal-Paz Saar. We have also made several important corrections to previously uploaded entries.
28 new text entries, bringing the total to 206. These include:
The recto of P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 678,
which contains a curse in the form of a strange narrative charm in
which Jesus encounters a sleeping worm, and commands him to go and
attack the curse’s intended victim. This text also contains a reference
to the Sator formula as the names of the nails of Jesus.
Berlin P. 22191,
a curse calling upon God and his subordinate powers to avenge its
writer; our re-reading has revealed a reference to Michael striking down
the Emperor Diocletian among the many Biblical precedents evoked in the
text.
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new archive entries. The new entries are both dossiers consisting of
Aramaic incantation bowls which can be associated with one another
because they mention the same figures – one group was created for Aban, Son of Daday, and the other for Aban Gušmis.
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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