Manuscript: | M44 |
Sigla: | Cairo JdE 42573 |
Text no. ![]() | 8 |
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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 |
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Text: | Translation: |
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[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) |