We’re pleased to announce that we have just updated the Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects.
This is the largest we have done since the database first launched, and
introduces a major change – for the first time, we are publishing
online a number of previously unpublished texts in advance of the second
volume of the Papyri Copticae Magicae (PCM). We have also been updating the texts published in the first volume, so that PCM I nos. I 1–11 now contain the same texts and notes as the published versions, with the exception of a few more recent corrections.
As well as the usual corrections and updates, the contents of this update include:
99 new text entries, bringing the total to 355. These consist of:
BnF Copte 129.20 fol. 178,
a fragmentary codex sheet containing recipes for healing problems
including difficult childbirth and deafness, published in 2022 by
Markéta Preininger, and discussed by her in a series of blogposts on this site.
British Library Ms. Or. 6794, a spell intended to help a man named Seuēros (“Severos”) to acquire a beautiful singing voice.
We are very grateful to Joseph E. Sanzo for his collaboration on the edition of the two British Library manuscripts, which he examined himself in a visit to London.
P. Mich. Inv. 593,
a 16-page codex copied by three different scribes, containing a prayer
said to have been granted to Seth, son of Adam, together with 32
procedures using it for various forms of protection and good fortune.
P. Mich. Inv. 1294
is a papyrus sheet, published online here for the first time, which
contains a love spell which invokes the sun and the moon to make a woman
fall in love with the user.
P. Mich. Inv. 602
is another manuscript published online here for the first time. It
contains a copy of a prayer attributed to the legendary Judas Cyriacus,
followed by the same love spell found in P. Mich. Inv. 1294, an
unexpected wine account, and then a series of spells for love and
healing, one of which mentions the Egyptian gods Isis and Osiris.
P. Mich. Inv. 599 + 594 + 603 + 596 + 598 + 597 + 595
is, as the name implies, a strange manuscript consisting of a series of
seven sheets which collectively function as a kind of unbound book. The
user copied the texts of P. Mich. Inv. 593, and then those from a
number of other manuscripts, including P. Mich. Inv. 602 and 1294, along
with a few notes on the texts being copied. While the parts of the
manuscript also found in P. Mich. Inv. 593 have previously been
published and translated, the rest has remained unpublished until now.
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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