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COL. V
45
Col. y.
(i) And you set up your [planisphere?] and you
stamp on the ground with your foot seven times and
recite these charms to the Foreleg, turning (?) to the
North seven times (2) and you return down and go to
a dark recess.
(3) A question-form, tested. You go to a dark clean
recess with its face open to the south and you purify it
with (4) natron-water, and you take a new white lamp
in which no red earth or gum-water has been put and
place a clean wick (5) in it and fill it with real oil after
writing this name and these figures on the wick with
ink of myrrh beforehand; (6) and you lay it on a new
brick before you, its underside being spread with sand;
and you pronounce these spells over the lamp again
another seven times. You display frankincense in front
of (7) the lamp and you look at the lamp; then you see
the god about the lamp and you lie down on a rush mat
without speaking (8) to any one on earth. Then he
makes answer to you by dream. Behold its invoca-
tion. Formula: (In margin-. Behold the spells which
you write on the wick : Bakhukhsikhukh, and figures)
gr. Zauberpap., I. 1. 277. As to the use of red earth and gum with
pottery cf. the quotation from Sacy, s.v. -xxoi, in Peyron, p. 380 a.
1. 5. r^w hi,' myrrh ink,' afj.vpvofj.eXav, probably somewhat after the recipe
given in Parthey, u. s. II. 34®.
gh*l<gter — xapaKTrjpes, a term, techn. for mystic symbols : cf. Wunsch,
Sethian. Verfluchungstafeln,p.98; Schmidt,Gnostische Schriften, p.54 seq.
1. 6. ne-zz-k. It seems probable that g) reads zz, for apart from
any other correspondences we have this compound preposition written
out as ne-zz- in 14/6 and Louvre Dem. Mag. iv. 19. 22.
5Ibwnt, *^\AoTrtoTT* 22/17, evidently = Xifiavcoroi.
1. 8. &;vxL'»>!XLCIIXLTf>C. looks like ' Soul of Khukh, son of Khukh.'
The magic-name compounds with x0VX> XVX> X^X are very numerous; cf.
P. Sophia,§ 36i,&^iii2(m.oc:>9(L and elsewhere often fiaixvx- Sethe, Verbum,
i. § 417, suggests that the 's the elemental god KK, 1 darkness.'
45
Col. y.
(i) And you set up your [planisphere?] and you
stamp on the ground with your foot seven times and
recite these charms to the Foreleg, turning (?) to the
North seven times (2) and you return down and go to
a dark recess.
(3) A question-form, tested. You go to a dark clean
recess with its face open to the south and you purify it
with (4) natron-water, and you take a new white lamp
in which no red earth or gum-water has been put and
place a clean wick (5) in it and fill it with real oil after
writing this name and these figures on the wick with
ink of myrrh beforehand; (6) and you lay it on a new
brick before you, its underside being spread with sand;
and you pronounce these spells over the lamp again
another seven times. You display frankincense in front
of (7) the lamp and you look at the lamp; then you see
the god about the lamp and you lie down on a rush mat
without speaking (8) to any one on earth. Then he
makes answer to you by dream. Behold its invoca-
tion. Formula: (In margin-. Behold the spells which
you write on the wick : Bakhukhsikhukh, and figures)
gr. Zauberpap., I. 1. 277. As to the use of red earth and gum with
pottery cf. the quotation from Sacy, s.v. -xxoi, in Peyron, p. 380 a.
1. 5. r^w hi,' myrrh ink,' afj.vpvofj.eXav, probably somewhat after the recipe
given in Parthey, u. s. II. 34®.
gh*l<gter — xapaKTrjpes, a term, techn. for mystic symbols : cf. Wunsch,
Sethian. Verfluchungstafeln,p.98; Schmidt,Gnostische Schriften, p.54 seq.
1. 6. ne-zz-k. It seems probable that g) reads zz, for apart from
any other correspondences we have this compound preposition written
out as ne-zz- in 14/6 and Louvre Dem. Mag. iv. 19. 22.
5Ibwnt, *^\AoTrtoTT* 22/17, evidently = Xifiavcoroi.
1. 8. &;vxL'»>!XLCIIXLTf>C. looks like ' Soul of Khukh, son of Khukh.'
The magic-name compounds with x0VX> XVX> X^X are very numerous; cf.
P. Sophia,§ 36i,&^iii2(m.oc:>9(L and elsewhere often fiaixvx- Sethe, Verbum,
i. § 417, suggests that the 's the elemental god KK, 1 darkness.'