| Manuscript: | M166 |
| Sigla: | P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 686 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 7 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 951 – 1000 |
| Text position: | p. 16, ll. 6-8 (257) |
| Type of text: | Healing from magic, virility (magical, formulary) |
| Original title: | ⲋ̅ ⸗ ⲟⲩⲣⲱⲙⲉ̇ ⲛⲧⲁⲩⲙⲁⲣⲉⲃ ⲛ̇ⲉϣⲧⲉϫⲓ ⲧⲉϥⲥⲓⲙⲓ |
| Original title (translated): | 6. A man who has been bound, unable to join with his wife |
| Conventional title: | Instructions for someone who has been cursed so as to be unable to have sex with his wife |
| Language: | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Dialect: | Sahidic with Middle Egyptian features |
| Script: | Coptic |
| Image: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_686/0001/thumbs |
| Text: | Translation: |
| p. 16 6. ⲋ̅ ⸗ ⲟⲩⲣⲱⲙⲉ̇ ⲛⲧⲁⲩⲙⲁⲣⲉⲃ ⲛ̇ⲉϣⲧⲉϫⲓ ⲧⲉϥⲥⲓⲙⲓ : ⲧⲁⲟⲩ- |
p. 16 [6] 6. A man who has been bound, unable to join with his wife. Pronounce [7] the prayer over oil of the first fruits. A pot of water, pour it [8] upon him. He will be completely released. Offering: costus and storax. |
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| Apparatus: | 6. ⲟⲩⲣⲱⲙⲉ̇ : ⲟⲩⲣⲱⲙ Kropp | ⲛ̇ⲉϣⲧⲉϫⲓ i.e. Sahidic ⲉ-ⲙⲉ⸗ϥ-ϣ̅-ⲧⲱⲱϭⲉ ⲉ- or ⲛ-ϥ̅-ϣ̅ ⲧⲱⲱϭⲉ ⲁⲛ ⲉ ? : i.e. Sahidic ⲛⲛⲉ⸗ϥ-ϣ̅ⲧⲉϫⲓ Kropp |
| Notes: | This text is numbered 256 in Kropp. |
| Bibliography: | Dosoo, Korshi, Edward O.D. Love, and Markéta Preininger. “The Coptic Magical Papyri Project: Progress Report.” Journal of Coptic Studies 24 (2022): 43–100. Gardner, Iain. “An Archive of Coptic Handbooks and Exemplars for the Making of Amulets and the Enacting of Ritual Power from the Tenth Century (P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 680–683 and 685–686)”, in Drawing Spirit: The Role of Images and Design in the Magical Practice of Late Antiquity, edited by Jay Johnston and Iain Gardner (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), 129. Kropp, Angelicus. Der Lobpreis des Erzengels Michael (vormals P. Heidelberg Inv. Nr. 1686). Brussels : Fondation égyptologique reine Elisabeth, 1966. Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 326-341, no. 135. |
| Editor: | EL’s edition from the original (23/6/16; 30/1/20); team (20/12/2022) |