PGM IV: The Erotic Spell of Attraction and the Lamp
- Date of account
- Roman imperial period
- Location
- Egypt, Greek Magical Papyri
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
A lengthy section of PGM IV gives an erotic attraction procedure involving a lamp, invocations, divine or daimonic names, and instructions directed toward a desired person. The operation is a valuable comparison point for household ritual, material technology, coercion, and the boundary between private magic and religious devotion. The papyrus is composite, and modern editions divide its operations differently; titles used in scholarship are often descriptive rather than ancient names. Its alleged efficacy belongs to the ritual’s imagined framework, not established fact. This is an AI-recalled lead; source quality 5 and corroboration 0.
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