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KYPRIANOS T926

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.24
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date: 501 – 700

Text position:

p. 4 (P. Mich. Inv. 594, vo) ll. 2-3

Type of text:

Protection of building (house) livestock/animals (magical, formulary)

Original title:

ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲡⲉⲕⲏⲓ̈ ⲙ̅ⲛ̅ ⲛⲉⲕⲣⲃⲉ ⲙⲛ̅ ⲡⲉⲧϣⲟⲟⲡ ⲛ̅ⲁⲕ ⲧⲏⲣϥ̅

Original title (translated):

For your house and your enclosures, and everything which belongs to you

Conventional title: For the protection of your house and your enclosures, and everything which belongs to you

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. 4 (P. Mich. Inv. 594, vo)
↓
2. ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲡⲉⲕⲏⲓ̈ ⲙ̅ⲛ̅ ⲛⲉⲕⲣⲃⲉ ⲙⲛ̅ ⲡⲉⲧϣⲟⲟⲡ ⲛ̅ⲁⲕ ⲧⲏⲣϥ̅ ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲥ ⲉϫⲛ̅ ⲟⲩⲙⲟⲟⲩ
3. ⲛ̅ⲅⲛ̅ⲟⲩϫⲕ ⲙⲡⲉⲕⲏⲓ̈ ⲙⲛ ⲙⲁ ⲛⲓⲙ ⲛⲧⲁⲕ ⲙⲛ ⲡⲉⲑⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̅ⲁⲧⲁϩⲟⲕ̅ [following text]

[p. 4 l. 2] For your house and your enclosures, and everything which belongs to you. Recite it over water [3] and sprinkle ⟨it⟩ in your house and every place that is yours; no evil will befall you.

Tableau:
Tracing by:

Apparatus:

2. ⲟⲩⲙⲟⲟⲩ second ⲟ corrected from ⲩ by overwriting

Notes:

Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 593, p. 8 ll. 16-18, p. 9 ll. 1-2 (KYP M9, T884)

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)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP T926: For the protection of your house and your enclosures, and everything which belongs to 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-926. Accessed on 10/10/2026
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