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COL. VI 51
you, you rise and pronounce his compulsion. (32) You
must lie down on green reeds, being pure from a woman,
your head being turned to the south and your face being
turned to the north and the face of the lamp being
turned northwards likewise.
(33) insert above—' I pray thee to reveal thyself to me
here to-night and speak with me and give me answer
truly concerning the given matter which I ask thee
about.'
Col. VI.
(1) An inquiry of the lamp. You go to a clean dark
cell without light and you dig a new hole in an east wall
(2) and you take a white lamp in which no minium or
gum water has been put, its wick being clean, and you
fill it with clean genuine Oasis oil, (3) and you recite the
spells of praising Ra at dawn in his rising and you bring
the lamp when lighted opposite the sun and recite to it
the spells as below four times, (4) and you take it into
the cell, you being pure, and the boy also, and you
pronounce the spells to the boy, he not looking at the
lamp, his eyes being (5) closed, seven times. You put
pure frankincense on the brazier. You put your finger
on the boy's head, his eyes being closed. (6) When you
have finished you make him open his eyes towards the
lamp; then he sees the shadow of the god about the
lamp, and he inquires for you (7) concerning that which
you desire. You must do it at midday in a place without
light. If it be that you are inquiring for a spirit damned,
a wick of sail-cloth (?) (8) is what you put in the lamp
and you fill it with clean butter. If it is some other
business, a clean wick with pure genuine oil (9) is that
which you put in the lamp ; if you will do it to bring
there is mentioned a book for shr 'hy, ' overthrowing (or laying) demons
cf. note 3/25.
1. 9. skne n wrt, pobivov e\aiov, Diosc. i. 53.
e 2
you, you rise and pronounce his compulsion. (32) You
must lie down on green reeds, being pure from a woman,
your head being turned to the south and your face being
turned to the north and the face of the lamp being
turned northwards likewise.
(33) insert above—' I pray thee to reveal thyself to me
here to-night and speak with me and give me answer
truly concerning the given matter which I ask thee
about.'
Col. VI.
(1) An inquiry of the lamp. You go to a clean dark
cell without light and you dig a new hole in an east wall
(2) and you take a white lamp in which no minium or
gum water has been put, its wick being clean, and you
fill it with clean genuine Oasis oil, (3) and you recite the
spells of praising Ra at dawn in his rising and you bring
the lamp when lighted opposite the sun and recite to it
the spells as below four times, (4) and you take it into
the cell, you being pure, and the boy also, and you
pronounce the spells to the boy, he not looking at the
lamp, his eyes being (5) closed, seven times. You put
pure frankincense on the brazier. You put your finger
on the boy's head, his eyes being closed. (6) When you
have finished you make him open his eyes towards the
lamp; then he sees the shadow of the god about the
lamp, and he inquires for you (7) concerning that which
you desire. You must do it at midday in a place without
light. If it be that you are inquiring for a spirit damned,
a wick of sail-cloth (?) (8) is what you put in the lamp
and you fill it with clean butter. If it is some other
business, a clean wick with pure genuine oil (9) is that
which you put in the lamp ; if you will do it to bring
there is mentioned a book for shr 'hy, ' overthrowing (or laying) demons
cf. note 3/25.
1. 9. skne n wrt, pobivov e\aiov, Diosc. i. 53.
e 2