Papyrus 121 (Greek magical papyrus)

I 121 = PGM VII, TM 60204, LDAB 1321, MP3 0552 + 1868 + 6006 = Van Haelst 1077) is a Greek magical manuscript written on papyrus from the 3rd century CE.

[3] This manuscript is preserved in 19 columns,[4] and it has been written by an experienced scribe, who made use of various lectional signs, interpunction, decoration, accurate and regular semi-cursive, with some ligatures and abbreviations.

[5] This manuscript contains the Tetragrammaton ιεωα (IEŌA) written in col. XV, line 10 (PGM VII:531) in the Victory Charm.

[2] R. F. Hock transcribes and translates the text as follows: Victory charm: "Helios, Helios, hear me, NN, Helios, lord, Great God, you who maintain all things and who give life / and who rule the world, toward whom all things go, from whom they also came, untiring, ĒIE ELĒIE IEŌA ROUBA ANAMAŌ MERMAŌ CHADAMATHA ARDAMATHA PEPHRE ANAMALAZŌ PHĒCHEIDEU ENEDEREU SIMATOI MERMEREŌ AMALAXIPHIA MERSIPHIA EREME THASTEU PAIE PHEREDŌNAX ANAIE / GELEŌ AMARA MATŌR MŌRMARĒSIO NEOUTHŌN ALAŌ AGELAŌ AMAR AMATŌR MŌRMASI SOUTHŌN ANAMAŌ GALAMARARMA.

Say this while you make an offering over oak charcoal, sacred incense, with which has been mixed the brain of a wholly black ram and the wheat meal of a certain plant.