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that is (2) stronger than it in the books. If you pro-
nounce these charms to any vessel, (3) then the gods
depart not before you have questioned them concerning
every word and they have told you (4) the answer about
heaven, earth, and the underworld, a distant inquiry (?),
water, (5) (and) the fields. A charm which is in the
power (?) of a man to pronounce.
Col. XXIII.
(1) A spell to inflict (?) catalepsy (? Formula. (2)
You take an ass's head, and you place it between your
feet opposite the sun in the morning when it is about
to rise, (3) opposite it again in the evening when it goes
to the setting, and you anoint your right foot with set-
stone (4) of Syria, and your left foot with clay, the
soles (?) of your foot also : and place your right hand
(5) in front and your left hand behind, the head being
between them. You anoint your hand, of your two
hands, with ass's blood, (6) and the two fnz of your
mouth, and utter these charms towards the sun in the
morning and evening of four days, then (7) he sleeps. If
you wish to make him die, you do it for seven days, you
do its magic, you bind a thread of palm-fibre (8) to your
hand, a mat (?) of wild palm-fibre to your phallus and
your head ; very excellent. This is the invocation which
you utter before the sun : (9) ' I invoke thee who art in
the void air, terrible, invisible, (10) almighty, god of
gods, dealing destruction and making desolate, O thou
1. 6. fnz : possibly the corners of the mouth.
1. 7. B-'we-t seems to mean literally ' taking pledge,' •xi-eomo: d\-
e^o-yco, so as to get power over a man or god; hence ' magic.' See
I Kham. iv. 32.
1. 9. See a very similar invocation in SiaKoirai, Leyd. Gr. Pap. V. n/17,
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that is (2) stronger than it in the books. If you pro-
nounce these charms to any vessel, (3) then the gods
depart not before you have questioned them concerning
every word and they have told you (4) the answer about
heaven, earth, and the underworld, a distant inquiry (?),
water, (5) (and) the fields. A charm which is in the
power (?) of a man to pronounce.
Col. XXIII.
(1) A spell to inflict (?) catalepsy (? Formula. (2)
You take an ass's head, and you place it between your
feet opposite the sun in the morning when it is about
to rise, (3) opposite it again in the evening when it goes
to the setting, and you anoint your right foot with set-
stone (4) of Syria, and your left foot with clay, the
soles (?) of your foot also : and place your right hand
(5) in front and your left hand behind, the head being
between them. You anoint your hand, of your two
hands, with ass's blood, (6) and the two fnz of your
mouth, and utter these charms towards the sun in the
morning and evening of four days, then (7) he sleeps. If
you wish to make him die, you do it for seven days, you
do its magic, you bind a thread of palm-fibre (8) to your
hand, a mat (?) of wild palm-fibre to your phallus and
your head ; very excellent. This is the invocation which
you utter before the sun : (9) ' I invoke thee who art in
the void air, terrible, invisible, (10) almighty, god of
gods, dealing destruction and making desolate, O thou
1. 6. fnz : possibly the corners of the mouth.
1. 7. B-'we-t seems to mean literally ' taking pledge,' •xi-eomo: d\-
e^o-yco, so as to get power over a man or god; hence ' magic.' See
I Kham. iv. 32.
1. 9. See a very similar invocation in SiaKoirai, Leyd. Gr. Pap. V. n/17,
15/21•
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