| Manuscript: | M9 |
| Sigla: | P. Mich. Inv. 593 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 34 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 401 – 700 |
| Text position: | p. 11 ll. 8-12 |
| Type of text: | Healing to help woman produce milk (magical, formulary) |
| Original title: | ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩⲥϩⲓⲙⲉ ⲉⲙⲉⲧⲉⲥⲉⲣⲱⲧⲉ ⲟⲩⲱⲧϩ︦ |
| Original title (translated): | For a woman whose milk does not flow |
| Conventional title: | For a woman whose milk does not flow |
| 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. 11 (↓) 8. [preceding text] ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩ- |
[8] For a [9] woman whose milk does not flow. [10] Recite it over a sweet thing; let [11] her eat it as she is coming out of [12] the bath. |
| Tableau: | |
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| Apparatus: | 9. ⲉⲙⲉⲧⲉⲥⲉⲣⲱⲧⲉ i.e. Sahidic ⲉ-ⲙⲉⲣⲉ-ⲧⲉⲥ-ⲉⲣⲱⲧⲉ : ⲉⲙⲉⲣⲉⲧⲉⲥⲉⲣⲱⲧⲉ Worrell |
| Notes: | Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 594 vo l. 21-23 (KYP M15; KYP T936) |
| 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); KD, MPS, RBS (23/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP T894: For a woman whose milk does not flow," 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-894. 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.