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Greek Magical Papyri
The (Latin: Papyri Graecae Magicae, abbreviated PGM) the name given by scholars to a body of papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, written mostly in ancient Greek (but also in Old Coptic, Demotic, etc.), which each contain a number of magical spells, formulae, hymns, and rituals.
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (modern el-Bahnasa).
Villa of the Papyri
The (also known as Villa dei Pisoni and in early excavation records as the Villa Suburbana) an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum, in what is now Ercolano, southern Italy.
Herculaneum papyri
more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum.
Elephantine papyri and ostraca
The Elephantine Papyri and Ostraca consist of thousands of documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Aswan, which yielded hundreds of papyri and ostraca in hieratic and demotic Egyptian, Aramaic, Koine Greek, Latin and Coptic, spanning a period of 100 years in the 5th to 4th centuries BCE.
Joseph Smith Papyri
Egyptian funerary papyrus fragments from ancient Thebes dated between 300 and 100 BC which, along with four mummies, were once owned by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Chester Beatty Papyri
The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri or simply the Chester Beatty Papyri are a group of early papyrus manuscripts of biblical texts.
Bodmer Papyri
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