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Text: Berlin 11347

Description: paper, 48.5 x 20 em, eighth or ninth century Bibliography: Walter Beltz, "Die koptischen Zauberpapiere und Zauberostraka," 32-35; Angelicus M. Kropp, Ausgewiihlte koptische Zaubertexte, 2113-17

Translator: Marvin Meyer

Berlin 113 47 presents a ritual (for a woman and her children?) intended to adjure spiritual powers to seal the oil used for healing and protection. The powers invoked include the holy spirit, the twenty-four elders, the four living creatures of Ezekiel 1, the seven archangels, the 144,000 (compare Revelation 7:4; 14:1-3) killed by Herod (compare Matthew 2), the three youths of Daniell (described with their two sets of names and three formulaic words), the confessors (or martyrs), and the twelve apostles. Among the powerful utterances used in the text are Alpha Leon Phone Aner, AKRAMACHAMARI, LAL MOULAL BOULAL, and utterances that recall the words of Jesus on the cross and the palindrome ABLANATHANALBA. The date Choiak 29 refers to the Coptic date of Christmas (compare Yale 1792 [text 55]).

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[ ... , help] us, me and my little children 1 [ ^{• • •} ], help us.

He said to her, 1 [ • • • ] these days and very great is 1 [ • • • ] his holy hands.

He turned his s [ ... ] you (?). He prayed in this way, saying, 1

[Merciful one(?)], son of a merciful one,

compassionate one, 1 son of the compassionate one, redeemer, son of the redeemer, 1

good one, son of the good one, savior, 1 son of the savior, forgiver, son 10 of the forgiver, lord, who loves his creation, shepherd, 1 who tends his sheep:

If I have found mercy before you, 1 grace before your face, you must send your 1 holy spirit,

that it may come upon this oil that is in 1 my hand

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and seal it in the name of the father ¹⁵ and the son and the holy spirit.

You must send 1 me your ²⁴ elders, whose names are 1 Achael, Banuel, Ganuel, 1 Dedael, Eptiel, Zartiel, Ethael, Thathiel, 1 Iochael, Kardiel, Labtiel, Merael, ^2o Nerael, Xiphiel, Oupiel, Pirael, Rael, 1 Seroael, Tauriel, Umnuel, Philopael, 1 Christuel, Psilaphael, Olithiel, who 1 sit upon ²⁴ thrones, with ²⁴ crowns upon 1 their

heads, with ²⁴ censers in their hands,

that they 25 may stretch out their right ones, each of them by1name.

You must send me today your ⁴ 1 incorporeal creatures, with 4 faces and ⁶ wings, 1

Alpha Leon Phone Aner,

Paramara 1 Zorothion Periton Akramata,

that they may stretch ³⁰ out their ⁴ spiritual fingers and seal

1 the oil that is in my hand, in the name of the father etc. 1

You must send me today your ⁷ holy 1 archangels,

Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, 1 Suriel, Zetekiel, Solothiel, Anael, 35

that they may stretch out their ⁷ fingers, by 1 name, and seal the oil that is in my hands, 1

in the name of the father etc.

You must send me today 1 your ^144,000 whom Herod killed, 1

each of them by name,

that they may seal 40 this oil that is in my hand, , in the name of the father etc. 1

You must send me today your ³ holy youths, 1 Ananias, Asarias, Misael,

Setrok, Misak, 1 Abdenako, LAL, MOUI..AL, BOUI..AL, each 1 of them by name,

that they may seal this oiJ45 that is in my hand-me, N.­

in the name of the father etc. 1

COPTIC SPELLS OF RITUAL POWER

You must send me today your each of them by name, that they may seal this ¹ oil that is

in the name of the father' You must send me the ¹² aposdes.

the son of god.

At the ^s moment that N. child of this oil, 1

you must take away from him all illnesses 1 and all magic and mishaps and all pains and all female spirits,

whether it has come from the east whether they have come from the

the air.

Let them all be dispelled 1 through Elemas Sabaoth 1 Abaktani

AKRAMA1CHAMARI, and the power of the one

upon the altar on the and the one who has come

the 1 Jordan as a dove.

He must come upon N. 1 to Rule over ¹ N ., who seals it.

Apa Anoup has sealed ^2o this oil.

Michael is the one who

Jesus Christ 1 is the one who gives that he may be renewed in ' like the tree of life that is in all the days of 1 his life,

of the father 15 and the son and

24 elders, whose names are ' ' Dedael, Eptiel, Zartiel, ' Iochael, Kardiel, Labtiel, Merael, 20

Pirael, Rael, ' Seroael, Tauriel, 'Christuel, Psilaphael, Olithiel,

with 24 crowns upon ' their in their hands,

out their right ones, each of them

your 4 ' incorporeal creatures, with

Aner,

Periton Akramata,

out their 4 spiritual fingers and seal my hand,

father etc. '

your 7 holy ' archangels,

Raphael, ' Suriel, Zetekiel, Solothiel,

their 7 fingers, by ' name, and seal my hands,'

father etc.

' your 144,000 whom Herod

oil that is in my hand, father etc. '

You must send me today your confessors, (verso) each of them by name,

that they may seal this ¹ oil that is in my hands-me, N.­

in the name of the father 1 etc.

You must send me the 12 apostles, ¹ who have walked with the son of god.

At the s moment that N. child of N. will be anointed with this oil, 1

you must take away from him all sicknesses and all illnesses ' and all magic and all potions and ' all mishaps and all pains and all male spirits ' and all female spirits,

whether it has come from the east 10 or the west,

whether they have come from the four sides of' the earth or the air.

Let them all be dispelled ' through the power of Eloei Elemas Sabaoth 'Abaktani Abanael Naflo

AKRAMA'CHAMARI,

and the power of the one who has come down 15 upon the altar on the 29th of Choiak, '

and the one who has come down upon the waters of the ' Jordan as a dove.

He must come upon N. ' to protect him from all evil.

Rule over ' N ., who seals it.

Apa Anoup has sealed 2o this oil.

Michael is the one who intercedes.

Jesus Christ' is the one who gives healing toN., that he may be renewed in ' his whole body,

like the tree of life that is in ' the middle of paradise, all the days of' his life,

yea, yea, at once, at once!

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64.

Exorcistic spell to drive evil forces from a