The composition presented here has been published by me recently in a German-language edition with full philological and palaeographical notes and a detailed commentary. However, it seems useful to present an overview of it in a form more accessible than the highly specialist collective volume of which it originally formed part. This hopefully will be especially to the benefit of scholars working on Greek material who might experience difficulties to find the original publication and thus overlook relevant evidence helping to understand better their own sources.
My actual work on the divinatory composition in question started in 1995/96 when I stayed for almost a year in Copenhagen working for the International Committee for Publishing the Carlsberg Papyri. During that time, I inventorized many hundred papyrus fragments in demotic script dating to the Roman period and coming from a temple context in Tebtunis, a large village in the south of the Fayum. During that year, the Book of th...