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KYPRIANOS T864

Manuscript: M9
Sigla:

P. Mich. Inv. 593

Text no. question mark icon Position of the text within the manuscript.3
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date: 401 – 700

Text position:

p. 6 ll. 3-4

Type of text:

Healing for jaundice (magical, formulary)

Original title:

[ⲉⲧⲃⲉ] ⲡ̣ϣ︦ⲛ︦ ⲓ̈ⲕⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ

Original title (translated):

[For] jaundice

Conventional title: For jaundice

Language:

Egyptian (Coptic)

Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)

Script:

Coptic

Image: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-APIS-X-2601%5D593_1R.TIF

Text: Translation:

p. 6 (↓)

2. [preceding text] [ⲉⲧⲃⲉ] ⲡ̣ϣ︦ⲛ︦ ⲓ̈ⲕⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ ⲧⲁⲩ-
3. ⲟⲥ ⲉϫⲛ̅ ⲟ[ⲩ]ⲙ̣ⲟⲟ̣ⲩ ⲉⲣⲉⲟⲩⲇⲁⲫⲛⲉ
4. ⲛ̅ϩⲏⲧϥ̅ ⲛ̅ⲅ̣̅ⲧⲥⲟϥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲛ͞ⲅϫⲁⲕⲙⲉϥ ·

[2] [For] jaundice. Recite [3] it over some water with laurel [4] in it. Give it to drink, and wash him.

Tableau:
Tracing by:

Apparatus:

2. ⲓ̈ⲕⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ i.e. Greek ἴκτερος
2-3. ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲥ ⲁ corrected from unclear letter by overwriting
3. ⲉϫⲛ̅ ϫ corrected from unclear letter by overwriting | ⲇⲁⲫⲛⲉ i.e. Greek δάφνη
4. ⲛ͞ⲅϫⲁⲕⲙⲉϥ i.e. Sahidic ⲛ̅⸗ⲅ-ϫⲁⲕⲙ⸗ϥ

Notes:

Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 594 ro ll. 2-3 (KYP M15; KYP T906)

Bibliography:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 304–310, no. 133.

Mirecki, Paul. “The Coptic Wizard’s Hoard.” The Harvard Theological Review vol. 87 no. 4 (1994): 435–460.

Worrell, W. H. “A Coptic Wizard’s Hoard.” The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 46 no. 4 (1930): 239–262.


Editor:

EL’s transcript from Worrell (29/1/20); preliminary translation by KD (31/1/2020); KD, MPS, RBS (23/7/2026)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP T864: For jaundice," 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-864. Accessed on 11/10/2026
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