| Manuscript: | M44 |
| Sigla: | Cairo JdE 42573 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 8 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 901 – 1100 |
| Text position: | p. 2, ll. 6-9 |
| Type of text: | Curse against virility (?) (magical, formulary) |
| Original title: | ⲟⲩⲡⲁⲛⲉⲣⲱⲙⲉ ϩⲓ ⲡⲉϥϩⲱⲃ |
| Original title (translated): | Removing (a) man at his work |
| Conventional title: | Curse against man's virility |
| Language: | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Script: | Coptic |
| Image: |
| Text: | Translation: |
| p. 2 |
[6] Removing ⟨a⟩ man from his work. Take the urine [7] of a woman and water ⟨from the⟩ drain of a woman’s bath [8] and egg white (?). Pour them at the door. [9] Urinate after them. On the 25th day of the moon. |
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| Apparatus: | 6. ⲡⲁⲛⲉ- i.e. Sahidic ⲡⲉ(ⲉ)ⲛⲉ- Drescher cf. p. 3 l. 15 : translate “urination” (“miction”) Chassinat |
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| 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. 46-48. |
| Editor: | From Chassinat, entered by KD (22/1/2020), checked with photograph of the original and given translation and apparatus by EL (16/3/2020); Team (14/4/2021; 16/4/2021) |
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[Editor names]. "KYP T1682: Curse against man's virility," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/text/kyp-t-1682. Accessed on 09/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Editor", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.