block-printed
Egypt
Source: Hammed, Ursula. "Arabic Magical Texts in Original Documents: A Papyrologist Answers Five Questions You Always Wanted to Ask." In Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context, edited by Petra M. Sijpesteijn and Marcela Garcia A. Probert, 209–227. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
Recipe Details
Preparation Steps
Magical squares containing names of God or special numbers, reproduced using block-printing techniques on paper documents (p. 223).
Original Recipe Text
Magical squares containing names of God or special numbers, reproduced using block-printing techniques on paper documents (p. 223).
Evidence
"Examples for such documents are P.Vind.inv. A.Ch. 14007 (= PERF 1255) and P.Vind.inv. A.Ch. 5606 (block-printed)."
Remarks
Block-printed amulets represent a corpus that shares social and cultural contexts with handwritten papyrus amulets, facilitating the mass production of magical texts (p. 216, 223).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
visual inspection
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
ink
Paper Typepaper
RegionEgypt
Source Information
AuthorHammed, Ursula. "Arabic Magical Texts in Original Documents: A Papyrologist Answers Five Questions You Always Wanted to Ask." In Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context, edited by Petra M. Sijpesteijn and Marcela Garcia A. Probert, 209–227. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
CollectionP.Vind.inv. A.Ch. 5606
Language
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