Amulet against venomous serpents (?)

Magic · Kyprianos Coptic magical texts · sahidic · L0 witness · English

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Source: Kyprianos text 127 (Healing/protection (magical, applied)), edited text from corpus/incoming/kyprianos-coptic-magic/Kyprianos_Texts_exports_24.07.2026.csv (CSV export of 24 July 2026, staged 2026-09-10 by worker W-B1); manuscript(s) P. CtYBR inv. 1792 qua · Ro ll. 1-22; copy dated 575 – 625 CE

Attribution: Kyprianos: Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (https://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de), CSV export of 24 July 2026, accessed 2026-09-10. Licensed ODbL 1.0 (http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/); contents DbCL 1.0. Changes: the edited Coptic of one record extracted to one file, apparatus and translation kept out of the text, by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

Licence: attribution — Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 for the database + Database Contents License (DbCL) 1.0 for the contents, quoted verbatim from the Kyprianos help page (coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de, fetched 2026-09-10): "The Kyprianos Database is made available under the Open Database License … Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License". ODbL is ATTRIBUTION + SHARE-ALIKE + KEEP-OPEN: an adapted database we publish must itself be offered under ODbL, and if we run a public service on it we must offer the adapted database too. Not a Creative Commons licence, which is why the class is declared by the string's own prefix

Full provenance and citation

The text

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English: quoted translations are shown as they are, with their credit in the provenance; lines marked draft are language-model drafts made for this project (to be corrected), and alignment unchecked marks a quoted verse whose placement was not cross-checked. Check the Coptic before relying on any English line.

refL0 witnessEnglish
1Above, left:
21. ⲁⲗⲫⲁdraft · highAlpha
32. ⲗⲉⲱⲛdraft · highLeon
43. ⲫⲱⲛⲏdraft · highPhone
54. ⲁⲛⲏⲣdraft · highAner
65. ⲙ̣ⲟⲓⲱⲓdraft · lowMoioi
7Above, right:
86. ⲧⲁⲣⲭⲏⲫⲱⲃⲏⲗdraft · lowTarchephobel
97. ⲥⲓⲣⲓⲥⲛⲟⲣⲟⲙⲓⲛdraft · lowSirisnoromin
10Above, lower left right:
118. ⲥⲁⲧⲱⲣdraft · highSator
129. ⲁⲣⲉⲧⲱdraft · highAreto
1310. ⲧⲏⲛⲏⲧdraft · highTenet
1411. ⲱⲧⲏⲣⲁdraft · highOtera
1512. ⲣⲱⲧⲁⲥdraft · highRotas
1613. ⲑ̣ϥdraft · lowThf
17Above, lower far right:
1814. ⲙⲉ̣\ⲗ/ⲭⲓⲱⲣdraft · mediumMelchior
1915. ⲑⲁⲧⲧⲁⲥⲓⲁdraft · lowThattasia
2016. ϥⲁⲑⲓⲥⲱ̣̣ⲣⲁdraft · lowFathisora
2117. + ⲧⲁⲩϫⲡⲟ ⲛ̅ⲡⲉⲭ̅ⲥ̅ ⲥⲟⲩϫⲟ̣ⲩⲧ ⲯⲓ̈ⲥdraft · medium+ The birth of Christ, the twenty-ninth
2218. ⲛ̅ⲭⲁⲓ̈ⲁϩⲕ ⲁϥⲉⲓ ⲉⲁϥⲉ̣ⲓ̣ ⲉⲡⲉⲥⲏⲧdraft · mediumof Choiak: he came, he came down
2319. ⲉϫⲙ̅ ⲡⲕⲁϩ ⲁϥⲉⲡⲓⲧⲓⲙⲉ ⲛⲏϫⲁⲧⲧⲃⲉ̣draft · mediumupon the earth; he rebuked all the reptiles,
2420. ⲛⲓⲙ ⲣⲉϥⲛⲉϫⲙⲁⲧⲟⲩ ⲡϩ̣ⲏⲃⲉⲥdraft · mediumthe poison-casters. A lamp
2521. ⲛⲁⲟ̣ⲩ̣ⲉⲣⲏ̣ⲧⲉ ⲡⲉ ⲡⲉⲕϣⲁ̣ϫ̣ⲉ ⲡϫⲟⲉⲓⲥdraft · highto my feet is your word, Lord,
2622. ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲟⲩⲟⲉⲓⲛ ⲡⲉ ⲧⲁϩⲓ̈ⲏdraft · mediumand the light is my path.

Provenance

L0 witness

title
Amulet against venomous serpents (?)
dialect
sahidic
source
Kyprianos text 127 (Healing/protection (magical, applied)), edited text from corpus/incoming/kyprianos-coptic-magic/Kyprianos_Texts_exports_24.07.2026.csv (CSV export of 24 July 2026, staged 2026-09-10 by worker W-B1); manuscript(s) P. CtYBR inv. 1792 qua · Ro ll. 1-22; copy dated 575 – 625 CE
licence
attribution — Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 for the database + Database Contents License (DbCL) 1.0 for the contents, quoted verbatim from the Kyprianos help page (coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de, fetched 2026-09-10): "The Kyprianos Database is made available under the Open Database License … Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License". ODbL is ATTRIBUTION + SHARE-ALIKE + KEEP-OPEN: an adapted database we publish must itself be offered under ODbL, and if we run a public service on it we must offer the adapted database too. Not a Creative Commons licence, which is why the class is declared by the string's own prefix
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attribution
Kyprianos: Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (https://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de), CSV export of 24 July 2026, accessed 2026-09-10. Licensed ODbL 1.0 (http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/); contents DbCL 1.0. Changes: the edited Coptic of one record extracted to one file, apparatus and translation kept out of the text, by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
file
Magic/Kyprianos Coptic magical texts/T0127 Amulet against venomous serpents (-).kyprianos.L0.txt

English

what it is
DRAFT English. Not a published translation: `existing` rows quote an aligned translation named in `basis`; `llm` rows are a language-model best guess from the dictionary gloss and context (Yousef asked for them, 2026-09-27; to be corrected later); check the source text before relying on any of it.
lines
0 quoted · 0 quoted with the alignment not cross-checked · 22 model drafts (marked “draft”)

Cite as:

Amulet against venomous serpents (?). Kyprianos text 127 (Healing/protection (magical, applied)), edited text from corpus/incoming/kyprianos-coptic-magic/Kyprianos_Texts_exports_24.07.2026.csv (CSV export of 24 July 2026, staged 2026-09-10 by worker W-B1); manuscript(s) P. CtYBR inv. 1792 qua · Ro ll. 1-22; copy dated 575 – 625 CE. Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/magic/kyprianos-coptic-magical-texts/t0127-amulet-against-venomous-serpents.kyprianos/. Kyprianos: Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (https://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de), CSV export of 24 July 2026, accessed 2026-09-10. Licensed ODbL 1.0 (http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/); contents DbCL 1.0. Changes: the edited Coptic of one record extracted to one file, apparatus and translation kept out of the text, by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

What the layers are

L0 witness
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.
L0.5 transliteration
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).
L1 Cairene
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.
L2 Kemetic
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.
English
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.