• 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

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Title:
  • 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
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.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/8c97kt922
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
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  • Unpublished.
Location:
  • HSVM Princeton Papyri Collections
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Princeton Papyri Collections
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
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