KYP T-637

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KYPRIANOS T637

Manuscript:	M22
Sigla:	O. Monts. Roca inv. no. 1472
Text no. Position of the text within the manuscript.	1
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date:	501 – 800

Text position:	Ro ll. 1-11
Type of text:	Separation spell (curse, magical, applied)

Original title:
Original title (translated):
Conventional title:	Separation Spell

Language:	Egyptian (Coptic)
Dialect:	Sahidic (non-standard)
Script:	Coptic
Image:

Text:

Translation:

Col. 1

1. ⳨ ⲓⲱⲁⲧⲁⲝ [tableau 1]
2. ⲓⲱⲁⲧⲉϥ [tableau 1]
3. ⲓⲱⲡⲁ [tableau 1]
4. ⲓⲱⲡⲁⲑⲁ- [tableau 1]
5. ⲛⲁⲝ [tableau 1]
6. ⲓⲱⲥⲉ̅ⲑ̅ⲉ̅ [tableau 1]
7. ⲓⲁⲕⲟⲩ-
8. ⲃⲓⲟⲩ
9. ⲓⲱⲙⲟⲣ
10. ⲓⲱⲑ̣ⲉ̣ . . [ . ? ]
11. ⲓⲱⲁ̣ . ⲃ̣ [ . ? ]

Col. 2

[tableau 1]
1. ⲟⲩⲙⲉⲥⲧ̣[ⲉ]
2. ⲙⲉⲛ ⲟⲩ[ . ? ]

Col. 3

1. [tableau 1] . [ .? ]
2. [tableau 1] ⲑⲱ . [ .? ]
3. [tableau 1] ⲃⲁⲟ [ .? ]

Inside tableau:
(kharaktēres:
ΚΧ ΑΑΧΨ̣
ΧΙΧΧ ΧΚ .
ΚΚΛΩ . [ . . ] )

[col. 1, l. 1] ⳨ Iōatax
[2] Iōatef
[3] Iōpa
[4-5] Iōpathanax
[6] Iōsethe
[7-8] Iakoubiou
[9] Iōmor
[10] Iōthe . . . [. . .]
[11] Iōa[. ]b[ . . . ]

[Col. 2, l. 1] A hatred [2] and a [separation (?)]

[Col. 3, l. 1] … [2] Thō… [3] Bao…

Tableau:
Tracing by:	Korshi Dosoo

Apparatus:

Col. 1
10. ⲑⲉ . . : ⲃⲉ . [ . ] . [ . ?] Martín-Hernández and Torallas-Tovar
Col. 2
1.ⲟⲩ corrected from .. by washing and overwriting
2. ⲟⲩ l. ⲟⲩ[ⲡⲱⲣϫ] (?), see Love fc., cf. e.g., Louvre E 14.250 (KYP M367/T150) ll. 5-6; 8-9; 24; 34; verso l. 11: ⲟⲩⲙⲁⲥⲧⲉ ⲙⲛ ⲟⲩⲡⲟⲣϫ.

Notes:

Bibliography:

Martín-Hernández, Raquel, and Sofía Torallas-Tovar. “A Magical Spell on an Ostracon at The Abbey of Montserrat.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 189 (2014): 175-184.

Love, Edward O. D. ““Crum’s Chicken”: Alpak, Demonised Donkeys, and Avianised Demons among the Figures of Demotic, Greek, and Coptic Magical Texts”, in Magikon Zōon: Animal and Magic, edited by Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming).

Editor:

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[Editor names]. "KYP T637: Separation Spell," 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-637. Accessed on 11/10/2026
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