The New Curse Tablet from Cos and the Lost Magical Handbook That Produced It.
A lead curse tablet found on the island of Cos has attracted scholarly interest, because of its affinities with the illustrations in the well-known magical handbook in Oslo (PGM XXXVI), but there are numerous other important similarities in their texts, especially their invocations of Typhon, the se...
| Published in: | Symbolae Osloenses Vol. 99; no. 1; pp. 146 - 173 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2025
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| Summary: | A lead curse tablet found on the island of Cos has attracted scholarly interest, because of its affinities with the illustrations in the well-known magical handbook in Oslo (PGM XXXVI), but there are numerous other important similarities in their texts, especially their invocations of Typhon, the sequences of his magical names and the use of fire in their formulae, similarities that suggest that they belong to the same textual tradition. |
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