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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 27-648:
Simplified Greek with my translation:
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Inscription on an "oscillum". P. Orlandini, KOKALOS 14 - 15 (1968 - 1969) 330 - 331 (ph.). Cf. now C. Gallavotti, HELIKON 17 (1977) 123 - 125, who studies the rhythmical structure of this inscription and compares it with other similar texts. The inscription runs as follows:I don't have access to Robert's Hellenica or the other articles cited, but see Christopher A. Faraone, "Stopping Evil, Pain, Anger, and Blood: The Ancient Greek Tradition of Protective Iambic Incantations," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 49 (2009) 227–255 (at 228-234), who prints the inscription as follows (p. 230):
Ἡρακλῆς ἔν-
θα κατοικεῖ·
μὴ ᾿σίτω μη-
θὲν κακόν
Cf. L. Robert, Hellenica XIII, 265 ff.
Ἡρακλῆς ἐν-Illustration of the amulet:
θά<δε> κατοικεῖ·
μὴ ’σίτω μη-
θὲν κακόν.
Ἡρακλῆς ἐνθάδε κατοικεῖ·Related post: A House Charm.
μὴ ’σίτω μηθὲν κακόν.
Heracles dwells here;
let nothing evil enter.
