Letter of Jesus to Abgar

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

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Source: Kyprianos text 2186 (Protection (?) (magical, applied?) Writing exercise (?)), 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) O. Gurna Górecki 108 Inv. no. C.O. 310 · Ro ll. 1-8; copy dated 601 – 750 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

10 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.

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21. [ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ⲡⲉ ⲓ̅ⲥ̅ ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ⲡⲉⲛⲧⲁϥⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲛⲧⲓ-]
32. ⲉⲡ̣ⲓ̣[ⲥ]ⲧ̣[ⲟⲗⲏ] ϩ̣ⲛ̣ [ⲧⲁϭⲓϫ]
43. ⲡⲙⲁ ϭⲉ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲛⲁⲧ[ⲱϭⲉ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ]draft · medium[I am Jesus, I am the one who wrote this]
54. ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ ⲛⲧ̣[ⲉⲓ]ϭⲓϫ ⲛⲥϩ̣[ⲁⲓ ⲛⲛⲉⲗⲁⲁⲩ]draft · mediumlet[ter] with [my own hand].
65. ⲛⲧⲩ̣ⲛ̣ⲁⲙ̣[ⲓⲥ] ⲛ̣ⲧⲉ ⲡⲁⲛⲧ[ⲓⲕⲉⲓⲙⲉⲛⲟⲥ ⲟⲩⲇⲉ]draft · mediumThe place, then, where [this handwriting] will be set [up],
76. ⲗⲁⲁ̣ⲩ̣ ⲛ̣ⲉ̣ⲛⲉⲣⲅⲓ̈ⲁ ⲙⲡ̣[ⲛ̅ⲁ̅ ⲛⲁⲕⲁⲑⲁⲣ-]draft · medium[no]
87. ⲧⲟⲛ ⲉ̣ϣ̣ϭ̣ⲙ̣ϭ[ⲟⲙ ⲉϩⲱⲛ ⲉϩⲟⲩⲛ ⲉⲡⲙⲁ]draft · mediumpower of the adver[sary, nor]
98. ⲉⲧⲙ̣ⲙ̣[ⲁⲩ . . . ? ]draft · mediumany activity of the [unclean spirit]
10--------------draft · mediumwill be able [to approach that place]

Provenance

L0 witness

title
Letter of Jesus to Abgar
dialect
sahidic
source
Kyprianos text 2186 (Protection (?) (magical, applied?) Writing exercise (?)), 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) O. Gurna Górecki 108 Inv. no. C.O. 310 · Ro ll. 1-8; copy dated 601 – 750 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
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/T2186 Letter of Jesus to Abgar.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 · 7 model drafts (marked “draft”)

Cite as:

Letter of Jesus to Abgar. Kyprianos text 2186 (Protection (?) (magical, applied?) Writing exercise (?)), 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) O. Gurna Górecki 108 Inv. no. C.O. 310 · Ro ll. 1-8; copy dated 601 – 750 CE. Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/magic/kyprianos-coptic-magical-texts/t2186-letter-of-jesus-to-abgar.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.