KYP T-868

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KYPRIANOS T868

Manuscript:	M9
Sigla:	P. Mich. Inv. 593
Text no. Position of the text within the manuscript.	7
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date:	401 – 700

Text position:	p. 6 ll. 10-11
Type of text:	Healing for a headache (magical, formulary)

Original title:	ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲡϣ̅ⲛ̅ϫⲱϫ
Original title (translated):	For a headache
Conventional title:	For a headache

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 (↓) 10. [preceding text] ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲡϣ̅ⲛ̅- 11. ϫⲱϫ ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲥ ⲉϫⲛ̅ ⲟⲩⲛⲉϩ ⲛ̅ⲅⲧⲱϩ̅ⲥ̅ 12. ⲛ̅ⲛⲉϥⲥⲙⲁⲩ [following text]	[10] For a [11] headache. Recite it over some oil and anoint [12] his temples.

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Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 594 ro ll. 6-7 (KYP M15, KYP T910)

10–11. ⲡϣ̅ⲛ̅ϫⲱϫ “headache”, cf. Crum CD 779a. Compare the pharmacological manuscript C.Pharm.Copt. 18 (KYP M676) fol. B vo l. 11-14, which has a section on the use of marjoram for headaches (ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲛⲓϣⲛϫⲱϫ).
11. ϫⲱϫ The base of the first ϫ extends into the left margin.
12. ⲥⲙⲁⲩ “temple” Crum CD 342a gives “temples” and “eyelids” as two possible meanings, but Vycichl DELC 190a says it is only attested as the latter once. For ⲥⲙⲁⲩ as “temples”, see C.Pharm.Copt. 32 (KYP M941) ll. 123, 124, 167, 315 and C.Pharm.Copt. 33 (KYP M326) front l. 3.

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)

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