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KYPRIANOS T884

Manuscript: M9
Sigla:

P. Mich. Inv. 593
Text no. question mark icon Position of the text within the manuscript.24
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date: 401 – 700

Text position:

p. 8 l. 16-p. 9 l. 2
Type of text:

Protection of livestock/animals from magic (magical, formulary)

Original title:

ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲡⲉⲕⲏⲓ̈ ⲙ̅ⲛ̅ ⲛⲉⲕⲣ̅ⲃⲉ ⲙ̅ⲛ̅ ⲡⲉⲧϣⲟⲟⲡ︦ ⲛⲁⲕ ⲧⲏⲣ︦ϥ︦
Original title (translated):

For your house and your enclosures, and everything which belongs to you.
Conventional title: For the protection of your house and your enclosures, and everything which belongs to you

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. 8 (↓)

16. [preceding text] ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲡⲉⲕⲏⲓ̈
17. ⲙ̅ⲛ̅ ⲛⲉⲕⲣ̅ⲃⲉ ⲙ̅ⲛ̅ ⲡⲉⲧϣⲟⲟⲡ︦ ⲛⲁⲕ
18. ⲧⲏⲣ︦ϥ︦ ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲥ ⲉϫ̅[ⲛ ⲟ]ⲩ̣ⲙⲟⲟⲩ

p. 9 (↓)
1. ⲛ̅ⲅ̅ⲛⲟⲩϫ̅ⲕ̅ ⲙ̅ⲡⲉⲕⲏⲓ̈ ⲙ̅ⲛ̅ ⲙⲁ ⲛⲓⲙ︦
2. ⲛ̅ⲧⲁⲕ ⲙ̅ⲛ̅ ⲡⲉⲑⲟⲟⲩ ⲛⲁⲧⲁϩⲟⲕ︦

[p. 8, 16] For your house [17] and your enclosures, and everything which belongs to you. [18] Recite it over water [p. 9, 1] and sprinkle ⟨it⟩ in your house and every place [2] that is yours; no evil will befall you.

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Apparatus:

17. ⲛⲉⲕⲣ̅ⲃⲉ : translate “your sheep enclosure(s)” Mirecki 1994 & 1999

Notes:

Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 594 vo l. 2-3 (KYP M15; KYP T926)

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 T884: For the protection of your house and your enclosures, and everything which belongs to you," 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-884. Accessed on 11/10/2026
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