| Manuscript: | M303 |
| Sigla: | Cairo JdE 45060 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 12 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 551 – 600 |
| Text position: | Ro ll. 47-49 |
| Type of text: | Gathering (of fish or doves?) (magical, formulary) |
| Original title: | ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩⲥⲁⲛ̅ⲙ̅ⲧ ⲉⲕⲁⲣⲣⲝ |
| Original title (translated): | For a pool (?), to make it inhabited |
| Conventional title: | To make a pool (?) inhabited |
| Language: | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Script: | Coptic |
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| Text: | Translation: |
| 47. [previous recipe] : ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩⲥⲁⲛ̅ⲙ̅ⲧ |
[47] For a pool (?), [48] to make it inhabited. Make for yourself a wax … Write the [49] phylacteries on it. Bury it in that place on the eleventh ⟨of⟩ the moon. |
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| Apparatus: | 47. ⲥⲁⲛ̅ⲙ̅ⲧ i.e. Sahidic ⲥⲁⲙⲛⲧ : i.e. Sahidic ⲥⲛ̅ⲧⲉ Kropp, Meyer |
| Notes: | 47. ⲟⲩⲥⲁⲛ̅ⲙ̅ⲧ The meaning of this word here is not clear; Crum (CD 339b) gives the translations of “pool, tank (?)”, but notes it can also mean a “collecting place (?)”, giving examples where it is a place for gathering doves and crops. It is possible that this should be translated as “dovecote”; cf. P. Mac. I 1 (T1375/M167), another text whose goal is to make a dovecote (ⲟⲩⲙⲁ ⲕⲁ ϭⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ) inhabited (ϭⲱⲣϭ). |
| Bibliography: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 1, Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, no. K, p. 50-54. |
| Editor: | Transcription from Kropp, entered by KD (21/1/2020), checked with photograph of the original and given edition by EL (18/3/20); team from photograph (2/8/2021) |