| Manuscript: | M9 |
| Sigla: | P. Mich. Inv. 593 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 8 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 401 – 700 |
| Text position: | p. 6 ll. 11-14 |
| Type of text: | Healing from hostile magic (magical, formulary) |
| Original title: | ⲉⲧⲃ[ⲉ ⲟ]ⲩ̣ⲁ ⲁⲩⲧⲁϩⲥϥ̅ ⲛ̣̅ⲟⲩⲛⲉϩ ⲛ̅ϩ[ⲓ]ⲕ̣ |
| Original title (translated): | For one who has been anointed with oil of sorcery |
| Conventional title: | For one who has been anointed with enchanted oil |
| 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 (↓) 12. [preceding text] ⲉⲧⲃ[ⲉ ⲟ]ⲩ̣ⲁ ⲁⲩⲧⲁϩⲥϥ̅ ⲛ̣̅- |
[12] For one who has been anointed with [13] oil of sorcery. Recite [it over] some [14] Spanish oil and some frankincense and anoint him. |
| Tableau: | |
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| Apparatus: | 12. ⲁⲩⲧⲁϩⲥϥ̅ i.e. Sahidic ⲉ-ⲁ⸗ⲩ-ⲧⲁϩⲥ̅⸗ϥ̅ |
| Notes: | Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 594 ro ll. 7-9 (KYP M15, KYP T911) 14. ⲥⲡⲁⲛⲟⲛ The word σπανός has the meaning “rare, uncommon” (cf. Förster WBGW s.v. σπάνιος), but relating to oil it is almost certainly a syncopated form of Ἱσπανός (“Spanish”; cf. LSJ s.v. Σπανόν). The word is often used in documentary papyri and medical works to describe olive oil imported from the province of Hispania; see P.Oxy. XVI 1862.11 (with note ad loc.), P.Oxy. XVI 1924.6, P.Sorb. I 62.1, and Mattingly 1988. |
| Bibliography: |
Mattingly, D.J. “Oil for Export? A Comparison of Libyan, Spanish and Tunisian Olive Oil Production in the Roman Empire.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 1 (1988): 33-56. |
| 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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[Editor names]. "KYP T869: For one who has been anointed with enchanted oil," 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-869. Accessed on 11/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Editor", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.