| Manuscript: | M9 |
| Sigla: | P. Mich. Inv. 593 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 30 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 401 – 700 |
| Text position: | p. 10 ll. 8-11 |
| Type of text: | Love spell (magical, formulary) |
| Original title: | ⲉⲧⲣⲉⲟⲩⲁ ⲟⲩⲁϣ̅ⲕ̅ |
| Original title (translated): | So that someone will desire you |
| Conventional title: | So that someone will desire 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. 10 (→) 8. [preceding text] ⲉⲧⲣⲉⲟⲩⲁ |
[8] So that someone [9] will desire you. Recite it over some [10] wine of the first fruits and give it to him [11] to drink. |
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| Apparatus: | 9-10. ⲁⲡⲁⲣⲭⲏ i.e. Greek ἀπαρχή |
| Notes: | Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 594 vo l. 14-15 (KYP M15; KYP T932) 9-10. ⲟⲩⲁⲡⲁⲣⲭⲏ ⲛ̅ⲏⲣ̅ⲡ̅ “wine of the first fruits” The first fruits are the first products of the harvest. According to canonical collections, first-fruits offerings (typically of oil, grain, and wine) were to be taken to the church and blessed by the bishop and were used for the production of the communion bread and wine, as well as for the care of the sick; cf. PCM I, p. 476-77. Since the primary referent of ἀπαρχή is wine, when a substance is not specified, we supplement “‹wine of the› first fruits”. For wine of the first fruits in the Coptic magical corpus, see e.g., P.Heid.inv.Kopt. 680 (PCM I 21; KYP M313; KYP T229) front l. 8; P.Heid.inv.Kopt. 683 (PCM I 24; KYP M312; KYP T47) front l. 18; P.Heid.inv.Kopt. 685 (PCM I 25; KYP M186; KYP T243) p. 16 ll. 8, 11; P.Heid.inv.Kopt. 686 (PCM I 26; KYP M166; KYP T1329) p. 17 l. 18; P.Heid.inv.Kopt. 518 (PCM I 32; KYP M285; KYP T1559) p. 1 l. 22. |
| 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. |
| 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 T890: So that someone will desire 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-890. 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.