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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.
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
The text
24 lines · a line number is a link to itselfEnglish: 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.
| ref | L0 witness | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. [ . ?] . . . ⲙ . [ ? ] | |
| 2 | 2. [ . ? ⲛⲓⲙ] ⲧϣⲉⲉⲣⲉ ⲙⲙ̣ⲉϣ̣[ⲉ ⲛⲓⲙ . ? ] | |
| 3 | 3. [ . ? ]ⲉ̣ ⲡⲉⲥⲛⲟϥ ⲥⲱⲕ ϩⲁ̣[ⲣⲟⲥ . ? ] | |
| 4 | 4. [ . ? ] ⲟⲩⲏⲣ ⲛ̅ⲛⲟⲩⲟ̅ⲉⲓϣ ⲛ̣ [ .? ] | draft · guess[…] |
| 5 | 5. [ . ? ] ⲕⲁⲧⲁϩⲣⲁⲕⲧⲏ̣ⲥ̣ ⲛⲛ̣[ⲉ- .? ] | draft · low[… every] daughter of [every] […] |
| 6 | 6. [ . ? ]ⲛ ⲟⲩⲧⲉ̅ ⲙⲁⲅⲟⲥ ⲉϣⲛ̣- | draft · low[…] her blood; draw it […] |
| 7 | 7. [ϩⲧⲏⲕ ϩⲁ]ⲣⲟⲥ ⲉⲓⲉ̅ⲙⲏⲧⲉⲓ ⲁⲛⲟ̣ⲕ̣ [ . ? ] | draft · low[…] how long a time […] |
| 8 | 8. [ . ? ] ⲥ̣ϩⲁⲓ̈ ⲛⲧⲉⲓⲉ̅ⲡⲓ̈ⲥⲧⲟⲗⲏ [ . ? ] | draft · low[…] the floodgates of […] |
| 9 | 9. [ . ? ]ⲡ̣ⲕⲁϩ ⲛ̅ⲃⲟⲧⲉ ⲛ̅ⲕⲓⲣⲉ̣ [ . ? ] | draft · low[…] nor a magician can |
| 10 | 10. [ . ? ] . ⲛ̣ⲉ̣﹒ (kharaktēres: ΙΙΙΙΙΙΥ) | draft · guess[have compassion] on her […] I […] |
| 11 | 11. (kharaktēres: Θ̣ΒΙΩϽϽΕΕΑ﹒) | draft · medium[…] write this letter […] |
| 12 | 12. (kharaktēres: ΗΦΕΕΕΘΘ·Ν) | draft · low[…] the earth of abomination […] |
| 13 | 13. (kharaktēres: ΗΕ⧹Ω⧸ΙΙΙΙΣΣΣΣΣΣ) | draft · low[…] (characters) |
| 14 | [tableau 1] | |
| 15 | 14. (kharaktēres: -ΙΩΜΔΑΑΑ) | |
| 16 | 15. (kharaktēres: ΤΓΘΓΠΠΠ) | |
| 17 | 16. (kharaktēres: ΗΒΑΛΘΥΩϫ) | |
| 18 | 17. (kharaktēres: Τϣ - - ||| Ε) | |
| 19 | 18. (kharaktēres: - ΣΙϩΕΜΑΧ) | |
| 20 | 19. (kharaktēres:ΜΧΗΗΗΧΙΙΙ) | draft · low(characters) |
| 21 | 20. (kharaktēr: =) | draft · low(characters) |
| 22 | ——﹒——﹒—— | draft · low(characters) |
| 23 | 21. (kharaktēres: Ε✳︎ƎΕΕƎ) | |
| 24 | 22. (kharaktēres: Ε✳︎Ǝ) |
Provenance
- title
- Curse to cause menstrual bleeding
- dialect
- sahidic
- source
- Kyprianos text 145 (Curse to cause menstrual bleeding (magical, formulary)), 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) Berlin P. 8315 BKU 1 11 BKU I 11 P. Berol. 8315 · Ro ll. 1-22; copy dated 651 – 800 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
- share
- attribution
- 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/T0145 Curse to cause menstrual bleeding.kyprianos.L0.txt
- 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 · 13 model drafts (marked “draft”)
L0 witness
English
Cite as:
Curse to cause menstrual bleeding. Kyprianos text 145 (Curse to cause menstrual bleeding (magical, formulary)), 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) Berlin P. 8315 BKU 1 11 BKU I 11 P. Berol. 8315 · Ro ll. 1-22; copy dated 651 – 800 CE. Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/magic/kyprianos-coptic-magical-texts/t0145-curse-to-cause-menstrual-bleeding.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
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.
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).
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.