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Title Suppl. Mag. 2 83
Content two sex spells / love spells
Principal Edition Suppl.Mag. 2 83
Reference Edition 12729. Robert W. Daniel and Franco Maltomini eds., Supplementum Magicum. Vol. II., (Opladen 1992).
Fragments London, British Library Pap 2558
Support Material papyrus
Date 200 - 299
More from the period between 200 CE and 299 CE
Origin Found: Egypt; written: Egypt
More from Found: Egypt; written: Egypt
Form and Layout papyrus roll (columns: 1, pagination: 0)
Genre magic
Culture religion
Religion Egyptian
Print Illustrations Suppl. Mag. 02 pl.VII
Availability
Origin
More from Found: Egypt; written: Egypt

DCLP Transcription [xml]

Introduction

Magical-medical recipes. The fragment (14.5 x 9.6) is written on the verso of an account or list of property. It contains a short column of nine lines, complete in height and breadth, but damaged at the upper left side (upper margin: 2.3 cm; lower margin: 5.4 cm). The text preserves two love spells (ll. 1-4; 5-9) separated by paragraphoi. They are concerned with sexual intercourse and reminiscent of the Jocular Recipes of Democritus (PGM 7.167-186) and of Suppl.Mag. 2.76. The handwriting is assignable to the 3rd cent. AD.

  ̣  ̣λ̣[  ̣]  ̣ικ  ̣  ̣  ̣(*) ἥδεσθαι·
[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣] μετὰ κόπρ[ο]υ
χ̣[ε]λ̣ι̣δό[ν]ος(*) σὺν μέλ<ε>ιτι
π̣[ερίχ]ρ̣<ε̣>ισ̣α̣ι̣(*).
——
5π̣ο̣λ̣λ̣ὰ συνουσιάζειν·
εὐ̣ζώ̣μου σπέρμα
μετὰ στροβιλίων σὺν
οἴνῳ τρ<ε>ίψας νήστης
πίε.
——

Apparatus


^ 1. or π̣α̣λ̣[λ]α̣ικί̣δ̣ι̣,   ̣λ̣ε̣  ̣λ̣ι̣κ̣ὸ̣ν̣ prev. ed.
^ 3. χ̣[ε]λ̣ι̣δό[ν]ος (or ἀ̣[λέ]κ̣δο̣[ρ]ος (l. ἀλέκτορος)) prev. ed.
^ 4. τ̣ρ̣<ε̣>ί̣[ψας]  ̣  ̣σαι (or π̣[ερίχ]ρ̣ε̣ῖσ̣α̣ι̣) prev. ed.

Notes

  • 1.

    After the gap, α̣ικ or λ̣ικ. This may point to a dative singular ending in -κιδ̣ι̣. Crönert’s reading χ̣[ε]λ̣ι̣δό[ν]ος (apud ed. pr.) is definitely preferable to ἀ̣[λέ]κ̣δο̣[ρ]ος (see e.g. Dsc. Eup. 2.48 [= 3, 263.14 W], Gal. Comp.med.sec.loc. 6.6 [12, 939.5 K]; Aët. 7.96-7 (CMG 8.2, 341.25-6, 342.8-9 Oliv.).

  • 4.

    Pace Milne, τρίψας is not demanded by sense, for the missing substance in l. 2 need not have been a solid.

  • 8.

    The form νήστης is the usual one in papyri (e.g. PGM 1.235; 3.334, 412, 427; P.Oxy. 8.1088.44).

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