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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Syra

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20017

Blurb:

(The Syrian Woman) (1st century BC or earlier)

On the same Egyptian papyrus as the incantation by Philinna of Thessaly is an incantation attributed to a Syrian woman (‘Syra’) whose name has been lost from the damaged manuscript.

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