An Amulet against Snakes (early Christian text)

Amulet against snakebite.

papyrus, 22.5 cm x 22.5 cm, folded 6 times horizontally and twice vertically.

ALPHA        TARCHE        PHOBEL
LEON         SIRIS         NOROMIN
PHONE
ANER
LOIOI        SATOR         MELCHIOR
             ARETO         TTHATTASIA
             TENET         FATHISORA
             OTERA
             ROTAS
             OF

†Christ was born on the twenty-ninth ‘ of Choiak. He came by descending ‘ upon the earth. He rebuked all the poisonous ‘ snakes. Your word, ‘ lord, is the lamp of my feet, ‘ and it is the light of my path.

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