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    The Greek Magical Papyri (Latin: Papyri Graecae Magicae, abbreviated PGM) is the name given by scholars to a body of papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, written...
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  • the eye of Shemihaza" "for a dog to bite someone". Greek, as a subset of the Greek Magical Papyri catalogued by Karl Preisendanz and others. Hebrew, as...
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    Abraxas (category Articles containing Biblical Greek-language text)
    Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri. It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on that account...
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    Magic in the Greco-Roman world (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    the Greek papyri were Hellenistic in outlook. Hellenization, however, also includes the Egyptianizing of Greek religious traditions. The Greek magical papyri...
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    found in Thebes in the 19th century and published as part of the Greek Magical Papyri. No first version of this work has been established, but early versions...
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    Helios (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    "The Religious and Philosophical Assimilations of Helios in the Greek Magical Papyri." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 55: 391–413. Gelling, P. and Davidson...
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    antiquity. Hans Dieter Betz, "Introduction to the Greek Magical Papyri," The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells (University...
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    Voces magicae (category Ancient Greek religion)
    authoritative true name of certain gods. As an example: in the Greek Magical Papyri, the first spell of the first papyrus intended to summon a daimon...
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    Sorcery (goetia) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    His claims are not, however, supported by modern historians. The Greek Magical Papyri, nearly a millennium after the fall of Mesopotamia, preserve the...
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  • figures List of Greek mythological creatures Betz, Hans (1996). The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226044477....
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