KYP T-910

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KYPRIANOS T910

Manuscript:	M15
Sigla:	P. Mich. Inv. 599 + 594 + 603 + 596 + 598 + 597 + 595
Text no. Position of the text within the manuscript.	7
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date:	501 – 700

Text position:	p. 3 (P. Mich. Inv. 594, Ro) ll .6-7
Type of text:	Healing for a headache (magical, formulary)

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

Language:	Egyptian (Coptic)
Dialect:	Sahidic (non-standard)
Script:	Coptic
Image:	http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2616/599r.tif & http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2616/599v.tif

Text:	Translation:
p. 3 (P. Mich. Inv. 594, Ro) → 6. [end of previous text] ⲉⲧⲃⲉ 7. ⲡϣⲛ̅ϫⲱ̅ϫ ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲥ ϫⲛ̅ ⲟⲩⲛⲉϩ ⲛ̅ⲅⲧⲱϩⲥ ⲛ̅ⲛ̅ⲉϥⲥⲙⲁⲩ [following text]	[6] For a [7] headache. Recite it over some oil and anoint his temples.

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Apparatus:

6. ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲃ corrected from ⲉ by overwriting
7. ϫⲛ i.e. Sahidic ⲉϫⲛ : ⲉϫⲛ Worrell | ⲥⲙⲁⲩ ⲥ corrected from unclear letter, maybe ⲩ?

Notes:

Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 593, p. 6 ll. 10-12 (KYP M9, T868)

7. ⲡϣⲛ̅ϫⲱ̅ϫ “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).
7. 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:

KD, MPS, RBS (23/7/2026)

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