We’ve just posted our first 2021 update to the Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects. As well as correcting some small mistakes in manuscript, text, and archive entries, the update includes:
- 45 new manuscript entries, bringing the total to 840.
- These are primarily Greek and/or Coptic magical texts from Egypt and Nubia.
- 12 new text entries, bringing the total to 39. These include…
- …an amulet held in Moscow made up of Gospel citations.
- …another love spell containing a Horus-Isis charm, written across three ostraca.
- 1 new archive – a group of Christian amulets from Oxyrhynchus written by a single scribe – bringing the total to 14.