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Šamaš in magical papyri (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Apotropaic magic 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.04 Magic and exorcism 05.04.02 Apotropaic magic Šamaš (Justice) 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.04 Concept of god (1) 01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism) 01.04.03.05 Great gods 01.04.03.05.04 Šamaš (Justice)	Keywords astrology magic
Period Roman Empire	Channel Papyri from Egypt

Text
Papyri Graeci Magici 5.42-53:
Go, lord, to your own world and to your own thrones, to your own vaults, and keep me and this boy from harm, in the name of the highest god, SAMAS PHRĒTH. Do this when the moon is in a settled sign, in conjunction with beneficial planets or is in good houses, not when it is full; for it is better, and in this way the well-ordered oracle is completed.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Papyri Graeci Magici 5.42-53

Bibliography

Betz 1996, 102

Betz, Hans Dieter. The Greek magical papyri in translation. Including the Demotic spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1996.

Amar Annus

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