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KYPRIANOS T1674

Manuscript: M44
Sigla:

Cairo JdE 42573
Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE 42573

Text no. question mark icon Position of the text within the manuscript.19
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date: 901 – 1100

Text position:

p. 4, ll. 3-5

Type of text:

Curse (magical, formulary) (?)

Original title:

ⲟⲩⲇⲓⲧⲕⲁⲥ

Original title (translated):

Causing pain

Conventional title: Causing pain

Language:

Egyptian (Coptic)

Dialect:

Sahidic

Script:

Coptic

Image:

Text: Translation:

p. 4
——— · · · · · ——— · · · · · ——— · · · · · ———
3. ⲟⲩⲇⲓⲧⲕⲁⲥ ϫⲓ ⲛⲧⲃⲱⲧⲉ ⲛⲟⲩⲉⲓⲟⲩ ϩⲁⲟⲩⲧ
4. ⲕⲁⲙⲉ ϩⲓ ⲛⲉϥϫⲁⲉⲓⲧ ϭⲟϭⲥ · ϩⲓ ⲛⲉϩ ⲙⲉ ⲧⲁⲁϥ
5. ⲉⲡⲉϥϩⲱ ⲁϥⲣⲱϣⲉ · · · · · ——— · — — —

[3] Causing pain. Take the sweat of a black male donkey [4] and his testicles. Cook it with olive oil and put it [5] on his face. It is sufficient.

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Apparatus:

3. ⲇⲓⲧⲕⲁⲥ i.e. Sahidic ϯⲧⲕⲁⲥ | ϩⲁⲟⲩⲧ i.e. Sahidic ⲛ̅-ϩⲟⲟⲩⲧ : translate “wild” (“sauvage”) Chassinat

Notes:

Bibliography:

Chassinat, Émile. Le manuscrit magique copte no. 42573 du Musée égyptien du Caire. Bibliothèque d’études coptes. Vol. 4. Cairo: L’Institut français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1955, p. 99-100.

Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Texte und Riten in koptischer Schrift”. In Altägyptische Zaubersprüche, edited by Hans.-W, Fischer-Elfert. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, 2005, 129.


Editor:

From Chassinat, entered by KD (22/1/2020), translation KD (17/2/2020), checked with photograph of the original and apparatus added by EL (17/3/2020); Team (23/4/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP T1674: Causing pain," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/text/kyp-t-1674. Accessed on 29/04/2024

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