PGM XIX a - Love Spell Amulet with Hair

The brown papyrus sheet is densely covered in Greek cursive script with visible vertical damage along historical fold lines. The text includes a series of divine names and magical formulas, as well as 'charaktêres' or non-alphabetic occult symbols located in the lower-middle section. This artifact represents a practical application of late antique magic, used as a physical tool or script within a ritual context.

This work is part of the Papyri Graecae Magicae (PGM) corpus, the primary source for Late Egyptian and Greco-Roman magical practices. These spells represent the syncretic environment where Hermetic, Gnostic, and Neoplatonic ideas intersected with practical sorcery, providing the foundation for the later Western grimoire tradition.