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KYPRIANOS T936

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.34
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date: 501 – 700

Text position:

p. 4 (P. Mich. Inv. 594, vo) ll. 21-23
Type of text:

Healing to help woman produce milk (magical, formulary)

Original title:

ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩⲥϩⲓⲙⲉ ⲉⲙⲉⲧⲉⲧⲉⲥⲉⲣⲱⲧⲉ ⲟⲩⲱⲧϩ
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: 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)
↓
21. [previous text] ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩⲥϩⲓⲙⲉ ⲉⲙⲉⲧⲉ-
22. ⲧⲉⲥⲉⲣⲱⲧⲉ ⲟⲩⲱⲧϩ ⲧⲁⲩ̣ⲟⲥ ⲉϫⲛ̅ ⲟⲩ⟦ϩⲉⲛ⟧ⲕ̅ⲁ̅ ⲉϥϩⲟⲗ⟦ϭ̣⟧ϭ ⲙⲁⲣⲉⲥⲟⲩⲱⲁ-
23. ⲙϥ̅ ⲉⲥⲛ̅ⲏⲩ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ϩⲛ̅ ⲧⲥⲉ̣ⲁⲩⲛ̣ⲉ [following text]

[p. 4 l. 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:

21. ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲧ corrected from ⲕ or unfinished ⲃ by overwriting
21-22. ⲉⲙⲉⲧⲉⲧⲉⲥⲉⲣⲱⲧⲉ i.e. Sahidic ⲉ-ⲙⲉⲣⲉ-ⲧⲉⲥ-ⲉⲣⲱⲧⲉ : ⲉⲙⲉⲣⲉⲧⲉⲥⲉⲣⲱⲧⲉ Worrell
22. ⲟⲩ⟦ϩⲉⲛ⟧ⲕ̅ⲁ̅ ⟦ϩⲉⲛ⟧ erased by washing i.e. Sahidic ⲛⲕⲁ : ⲟⲩⲛⲕⲁ Worrell | ⲉϥϩⲟⲗ⟦ϭ̣⟧ϭ ⟦ϭ̣⟧ corrected from ⲉ by modification then erased by washing
23. ⲥⲉ̣ⲁⲩⲛ̣ⲉ second stroke of ⲛ unwritten? i.e. Sahidic ⲥⲓⲟⲟⲩⲛ

Notes:

Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 593, p. 11 ll. 8-12 (KYP M9, T894)

22. ⲟⲩ⟦ϩⲉⲛ⟧ⲕ̅ⲁ̅ The parallel text in P.Mich. 593 p. 11 l. 10 (KYP T894) reads ⲟⲩⲛ̅ⲕⲁ︦. It seems that the copyist of this manuscript changed it when copying; the supralineation of ⲕ̅ⲁ̅ may imply that a number (“twenty-one”) was understood, i.e. “recite it twenty-one times”, but this does not fit with the syntax of the larger phrase.

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 T936: 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-936. Accessed on 10/10/2026
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