Amulet to protect the entrance to a house from vermin

From the Ancient Christian Magic

Spell 25:

Test: Oxyrhynchus 1060
Description: papyrus, 9.2 x 6.3 cm, sixth century(?)
Bibliography: Karl Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 2.209-10; Marvin Meyer, "A Sixth-Century Christian Amulet"
Translator: Marvin Meyer

TEXT

† The door, APHRODITE,
PHRODITE,
RODITE,
ODITE,
DITE,
ITE,
TE,
TE,
E.

HOR HOR
PHOR PHOR
YAO SABAOTH ADONAI
I bind you, artemisian scorpion.
Free this house
of every reptile
and annoyance, at once, at once.
St. Phocas is here.
PHAMENOTH 13, third indication.

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