Manuscript: | M1159 |
Sigla: | Os. Mil. Vogl. inv. 1 |
Text no. Position of the text within the manuscript. | 1 |
Coptic Scriptorium: | |
Date: | 901 – 1000 |
Text position: | Convex ll. 1-67 |
Type of text: | Curse (applied, magical) |
Original title: | |
Original title (translated): | |
Conventional title: | Applied curse against Harōn |
Language: | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
Script: | Coptic |
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Text: | Translation: |
Convex 1. χμγ̣̣ |
[1] ΧΜΓ [2] Koukhos, [3] Trophōs, [4] Kimphias, [5] Psothomis, [6-7] and Plemos, [8] Mēoliat: [9] these are [10] the names of [11] the six [12] powers of [13] Death, they [14] who bring [15] every sickness [16] down upon [17-18] every man, [19] that bring [20] every soul [21] out of [22] every body, [23] I call (?), I adjure [24] you (pl.) by [25] your names [26] {and your [27] names} and [28] your powers [29] and your [30] places and [31] the wellbeing of [32] Death [33] that you go [34] to Harōn the [35] son of Tkouikira [36] and you take his [37] soul! I adjure [38] you (s.), O [39] dead one, by the way [40] upon which they took you [41] and the [42] punishment that [43] came upon you, [44] and that you heard [45] of, and the [46] punishment that you [47] saw, [48] and the faces [49] that you saw, [50] and [51] the river of fire, [52] which casts wave [53] upon wave, that [54] {I will [55] place this} [56] at the moment that I [58] place this [59] bone under [60] your back, [61] that just as [62] you have suffered, [63] you shall bring [64] your suffering [65] down [66] upon Harōn [67] the son [68] of Tkouikira! [69] Yea, yea! [70] Quickly, quickly! [71] Go, quickly! |
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Apparatus: | 1. χμγ : ⲭ(ⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟ)ⲩ Drescher : ⲭⲩ⟨ⲭⲟⲥ⟩ ? Ritner |
Notes: | 1. χμγ̣̣ This scribal mark is to be understood either as an isopsephism for 643 = θεὸς βοηθός (“God is help”), or as an abbreviation of Χριστὸν Μαρία γεννᾷ (“Mary bore Christ”), see Lincoln Blumell, “Lettered Christians. Christians, Letters, and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus”, Leiden: Brill, 2012, p. 47-48. |
Bibliography: | Drescher, James. “A Coptic Malediction.” Annales du Service des antiquités de l‘Égypte (ASAE) 48 (1948), p. 267-276. |
Editor: | From Drescher, with corrections by KD (23/5/2019) and EL (23/5/2019) based on high quality photograph; translation by KD (11/10/2019); team (30/10/2020) |