| Manuscript: | M15 |
| Sigla: | P. Mich. Inv. 599 + 594 + 603 + 596 + 598 + 597 + 595 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 21 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 501 – 700 |
| Text position: | p. 3 (P. Mich. Inv. 594, ro) ll. 20-23 |
| Type of text: | Reconciliation (magical, formulary) |
| Original title: | ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ϩ̣ⲟⲉ̣ⲓⲛⲉ̣ ⲉⲩⲡⲟⲣ̅ϫ̅ ⲉⲛ̅ⲉⲩⲉⲣⲏⲩ |
| Original title (translated): | For people who have been separated from one another |
| Conventional title: | For people who have been separated from one another |
| 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) → |
[20] For people [21] who have been separated from one another. Recite it over oil and anoint the face of one [22] of them, let them look at each other’s faces. |
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| Apparatus: | 21. ⲉⲛ̅ⲉⲩⲉⲣⲏⲩ ⲩ corrected from ⲅ̣ by overwriting? |
| Notes: | Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 593, p. 8 ll. 6-10 (KYP M9, T882) Worrell and Mirecki 1994 & 1999 understood KYP T924 and KYP T7013 as part of the same prescription. 21. ⲧⲱϩⲥ ⲙⲡϩⲟ Anointing the face with oil is common in procedures for manipulating relationships, for both reconciliation (or stopping violent behavior in the couple) and separation. In the former cases, the prescriptions often indicate whose face (the man’s or woman’s) to anoint, e.g., in P.Heid.inv.Kopt. 686 (PCM I 26; KYP M166) p. 16 ll. 20 (KYP T1318), 23 (KYP T752); Leiden F 1964/4.14 (PCM I 37; KYP M21; KYP T1576) back l. 15. In the latter cases, sometimes the faces of effigies standing in for the targets are anointed, e.g., in P.Heid.inv.Kopt. 679 (KYP M296; KYP T225) front ll. 22-23 (cf. Dosoo 2023, 174-175). Anointing the recipient’s face with oil is also commonly used in procedures for gaining favour, e.g., in Leiden F 1964/4.14 (PCM I 37; KYP M21) back ll. 3 (KYP T1583), 31 (KYP T2087). For discussion of the relation between the face, oil, and favour, see Preininger 2026, 34-42. |
| Bibliography: |
Dosoo, Korshi. “Two Body Problems: Binding Effigies in Christian Egypt.” In Drawing Spirit: The Role of Images and Design in the Magical Practice of Late Antiquity, edited by Jay Johnston and Iain Gardner. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, 135–184. |
| Editor: | KD, MPS, RBS (23/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP T924: For people who have been separated from one another," 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-924. Accessed on 10/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Editor", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.