This unique ancient magical scroll from Egypt comprises the most extensive ritual collection among the Greek magical papyri. While the Greek magical papyrus book PGM IV is more extensive in terms of line count, PGM VII holds many more ritual instructions.
Content:
- Overview of PGM VII
- The dice-based Homer oracle
- Good and bad times for ritual practice
- Ritual instructions: Divination, Love, and Healing
- A journey through the networks of the ancient deities in PGM VII
- Who are the dominant deities in PGM VII?
- Different Kinds of Performing Magic
- Summary, Results & Interpretation
- Who was the Magician who owned PGM VII?
Links & Resources
Link to the papyrus
This website is currently not available due to the British Library being hacked in 2023. There is no information about when the magical papyri will be available online again.
“Demokrit’s Games” exeriment by by Dr. Sean Coughlin
https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/1/8/recreating-democritus-party-tricks
Reconstruction of the Egyptian calendar and the “Orbit of the Moon”
Raquel Martín Hernández, A New Column in P.Lond. I 121 (Pap.Graec.Mag.VII): Edition and Interpretation. In: Symbolae Osloenses, Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies 92:1 (2018), 156-170.
Link to the papyrus from the “Coptic Wizard’s Hoard”, P.Mich.inv. 599 / Verso
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2616/599V.TIF
Link to a discussion about the “Headless Deity with Dr. Justin Sledge @TheEsotericaChannel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4iIFDh1puk
Translations
- Karl Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae – Die griechischen Zauberpapyri, Band II (1931), 1-45.
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/heidhs3763IIA-51bd2 - Hans Dieter Betz (ed.), The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (1986), 112-145.
Using Homer for Divination: Homeromanteia in Context
https://research-bulletin.chs.harvard.edu/2014/03/28/using-homer-for-divination-homeromanteia-in-context/