Curse invoking a scorpion — Coptic · Cairene

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Source: Kyprianos text 730 (Curse (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) P. Moscow Copt. 33 Inv. no. I.1.б 688 GIC no. ИГ-4705 State Inv. No. 13270179 · Ro ll. 1-11; copy dated 901 – 1100 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

11 lines · a line number is a link to itself

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.

ref	L0 witness	English
1	1. ⲧⲟⲩⲱϩⲉ ⲧⲟⲩⲱϩⲉ ⲧⲟⲩⲁϩ ⲕⲱϩⲧ
2	2. ⲧⲟⲩⲁϩ ϫⲁϥ ⲧⲛⲧⲁⲥⲉⲣ ⲍ̣ ⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲛ̣
3	3. ⲍ ⲉⲛⲉⲩϣⲏ ⲉⲥⲉⲡϩⲟⲩⲛ ϩⲁ ⲧⲉⲡ̣ⲗⲁ̣-
4	4. ⲝ ⲉⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲧⲡⲁⲣ⧹ⲑ̣⧸ ⲛⲡⲉⲡⲣⲏ ⲛⲁⲩ ⲉ-	draft · mediumScorpion, scorpion, scorpion of fire,
5	5. ⲣⲟⲥ ⲙⲡⲉⲡⲟⲟϩ ϩⲉ ϫⲱⲥ [vacat]	draft · mediumscorpion of frost, which spent seven days and
6	6. ϩⲛ ϯⲟⲩⲛⲟⲩ ⲧⲁⲓ ⲧⲉⲣ\ⲛⲁϫⲓ ⲧⲏⲛϩ/ ⲃⲱⲕ ϣⲁ ς̅ς̅	draft · mediumseven nights hidden under the slab
7	7. ⲩ̣ ⲇ̅ⲇ̅ ⲧⲉⲣϫⲟⲕⲉⲥ ⲉⲣⲥⲁϩ ⲉⲓ	draft · mediumof Mary the virgin; the sun did not see
8	8. ⲙⲡⲉⲣⲓ ⲉⲣⲥⲃⲟⲩⲓ ⲉⲓ ⲙⲡⲉⲣⲓ	draft · lowher, the moon did not fall upon her.
9	9. ⲉⲣⲙⲁⲅⲟⲥ ⲉⲓ ⲙⲡⲉⲣⲓ : ⲉⲫⲁⲣⲙⲁ-	draft · lowIn this very hour, take wings and go to N.N.
10	10. ⲣⲙⲁⲅⲟⲥ̣ ⲉⲓ ⲉⲡⲉⲣⲓ ⲉⲓⲉ ⲁⲙⲏ : ⲏ	draft · low[...] N.N., and sting her. If a scribe comes,
11	11. ⲙⲟⲛ ⲙⲡⲉⲣⲓ	draft · lowdo not (yield); if a pupil (?) comes, do not;

Provenance

title: Curse invoking a scorpion
dialect: sahidic
source: Kyprianos text 730 (Curse (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) P. Moscow Copt. 33 Inv. no. I.1.б 688 GIC no. ИГ-4705 State Inv. No. 13270179 · Ro ll. 1-11; copy dated 901 – 1100 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/T0730 Curse invoking a scorpion.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 · 8 model drafts (marked “draft”)

Cite as:

Curse invoking a scorpion. Kyprianos text 730 (Curse (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) P. Moscow Copt. 33 Inv. no. I.1.б 688 GIC no. ИГ-4705 State Inv. No. 13270179 · Ro ll. 1-11; copy dated 901 – 1100 CE. Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/magic/kyprianos-coptic-magical-texts/t0730-curse-invoking-a-scorpion.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
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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.