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KYPRIANOS T911

Manuscript: M15
Sigla:

P. Mich. Inv. 599 + 594 + 603 + 596 + 598 + 597 + 595
Text no. question mark icon Position of the text within the manuscript.8
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date: 501 – 700

Text position:

p. 3 (P. Mich. Inv. 594, Ro) ll. 7-9
Type of text:

Healing from hostile magic (magical, formulary)

Original title:

ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩⲁ ⲁⲩⲧⲁϩⲥϥ ⲛ̅ⲟⲩⲛ̅ⲉϩ ⲛϩⲓⲕ
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: 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)
→
7. [preceding text] ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩⲁ
8. ⲁⲩⲧⲁϩⲥϥ ⲛ̅ⲟⲩⲛ̅ⲉϩ ⲛϩⲓⲕ ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲥ ⲉϫⲛ︦ ⲟⲩⲛ̅ⲉϩ ⲛ̅ⲥⲡⲁⲛ︦ⲟⲛ ⲙⲛ̅ ⲟⲩⲗⲓ̈ⲃⲁⲛⲟⲥ
9. ⲛ̅ⲅⲧⲁϩⲥϥ [following text]

[7] For one [8] who has been anointed with oil of sorcery. Recite it over some Spanish oil and some frankincense [9] and anoint him.

Tableau:
Tracing by:

Apparatus:

7. ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲃ corrected from ⲣ̣ by overwriting ?
8. ⲁⲩⲧⲁϩⲥϥ i.e. Sahidic ⲉ-ⲁ⸗ⲩ-ⲧⲁϩⲥ̅⸗ϥ̅ | ⲛ̅ⲟⲩⲛ̅ⲉϩ ⲛϩⲓⲕ ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲥ : [ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲥ ⲉϫ]ⲛ︦ ⲟⲩⲛⲉϩ ⲛ︦ϩⲓⲕⲧⲁⲛⲟⲥ Worrell | ⲉϫⲛ︦ large dot of ink on the supralinear stroke | ⲥⲡⲁⲛ︦ⲟⲛ i.e. Σπανόν | ⲗⲓ̈ⲃⲁⲛⲟⲥ i.e. Greek λίβανος

Notes:

Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 593, p. 6 ll. 12-14 (KYP M9, T869)

8. Ⲥⲡⲁⲛ︦ⲟⲛ 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.

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)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP T911: 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-911. Accessed on 10/10/2026
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