• Amulet(?). Magical text written in script similar to Nabataean/Early Islamic-Arabic scripts (see A. Grohmann, Arabische Paläographie II, Wien, 1971, between 72-73). Several lines in red ink (ll. 5-7). On the verso traces of 3 lines of Greek

Collections:

• Robert Garrett
• Digitized Manuscripts
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
• Princeton Papyri Collections

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99104605043506421

Language:

• Arabic

Call number:

• Princeton Papyri Collections
• Electronic Resource

Extent:

• 1 item (8 lines) : papyrus ; 6.0 x 13.5 cm.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Description:

• Kufic 'en négatif'(?)
• Ms. fragment
• Provenance unknown, VI-IX A.D.
• Right margin 1.0 cm.; left margin 0.8 cm.

Subject:

• Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri)

Title sort:

• [Amulet(?). Magical text written in script similar to Nabataean/Early Islamic-Arabic scripts (see A. Grohmann, Arabische Paläographie II, Wien, 1971, between 72-73). Several lines in red ink (ll. 5-7). On the verso traces of 3 lines of Greek]

Alternative:

• Princeton Papyri Collections (C0401), NS 29.

Source acquisition:

• Gift of Robert Garrett, Class of 1897.

References:

• Venetia Porter, “Stones to Bring Rain?: Magical Inscriptions in Linear Kufic on Rock Crystal Amulet-Seals,” in Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, eds., Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and Culture (New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 2009).
• Unpublished.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/8c97kt922

Location:

• HSVM Princeton Papyri Collections
• HSVM Electronic Resource
• ELF1 Princeton Papyri Collections
• ELF1 Electronic Resource

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

Available online:

• Digital content