Manuscript: | M167 |
Sigla: | P. Macq. I 1 |
Text no. Position of the text within the manuscript. | 2 |
Coptic Scriptorium: | |
Date: | 601 – 800 |
Text position: | p. 11 ll. 15-26 – p. 12 ll. 17-18 |
Type of text: | Healing/protection (magical, formulary) |
Original title: | |
Original title (translated): | |
Conventional title: | Instructions for creation of the amulet (protection), offering, water, wine, and bread |
Language: | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
Script: | Coptic |
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Text: | Translation: |
p. 11 p. 12 |
p. 11 [19] Offering: mastic, frankincense, styrax. [20] Fill a pot ⟨with⟩ water. Put a crown ⟨of⟩ [21] myrtle upon it. Put another one on you. ⟨The⟩ formula [22] over it. Place another branch of myrtle in [23] your right hand. ⟨The⟩ formula over it for three days. Drink ⟨it⟩. [24] Wash for 14 days. Afterwards, [25] take a cup of wine and white bread. ⟨The⟩ formula over them [p. 12, 17] 21 times (?) … Eat them. Offer [18] up the offering. It is finished. |
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Apparatus: | p. 11 p. 12 |
Notes: | p. 11 l. 24 & p. 12 l. 15. ϣⲁⲡⲉⲕ · ⲓ̈̅ⲇ̅, ϣⲁⲡⲉⲕ:ⲕ̅ⲁ̅ Choat and Gardener translate these as “until your 14th/21st ⟨day⟩”; here we propose understanding it as a number of times, but we have been unable to find the idiom elsewhere. |
Bibliography: | Choat, Malcolm, and Iain Gardner. A Coptic handbook of ritual power (p. Macq. I 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, p. 64-67. |
Editor: | Text from DDGLC project based on edition in Meyer/Choat (14/10/2019); MPS (19/5/2020) translation, notes, apparatus mostly based on Choat, Gardner; Team (2/7/2021) |