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Papyri Graecae Magicae, PGM XXIVa: Isis oracle with 29 letters on palm leaves English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth , Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
AI translation. Translated by Claude (Anthropic) from the original beside it, then checked against the original by a second AI (Codex, from OpenAI); objections that held up were corrected. No specialist has reviewed it. Read it as a plain working version, not an authoritative translation. How these were made 1–6 1 Μεγάλη Ἶσις ἡ κυρία.
Great Isis, the Lady.
2 ἀντίγραφον ἱερᾶς βί-
Copy of a sacred bo-
3 βλου τῆς εὑρεθείσης ἐν
ok that was found in
4 τοῖς τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ ταμίοις.
the treasuries of Hermes.
5 ὁ δὲ τρόπος ἐστὶν τὰ περ[ὶ]
And the method is what conc[erns]
6 τὰ γράμματα κθ
the 29 letters
The whole original: papyri.info .
Source and licence Translated by Claude (claude-opus-5-5, Anthropic) from the library's urn:magic:dclp:64001:grc, from papyri.info's Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (CC BY 3.0), one English line for each line of the original. Only some passages are translated so far: those that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and the demons-and-angels study cite.
CC BY 4.0: credit papyri.info's Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (the source's own licence is CC BY 3.0) and this AI translation.
This translation is magic_dclp_64001.json in the downloadable collection, which also records each objection the review raised and what was done about it.
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