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Attribution: Curse to undo sinews from Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (https://copticscriptorium.org), corpus magical-papyri, document BKU_1_5, version 6.3.0 (2026-06-08), annotations by Edward O. D. Love, Lance Martin, Amir Zeldes, Caroline T. Schroeder; source edition T32. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Layers L1/L2 are modified: re-spelled (Cairene) / transliterated (Kemetic) by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
Licence: CC-BY 4.0
The text
5 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 | [...] ⲧⲓⲉⲡⲓⲕⲁⲗⲉ ⲙ̅ⲙⲟⲕ ⲙ̅ⲡⲟⲟⲩ ⲥⲟⲩⲣⲟⲭⲭⲁⲧⲁ ⲛⲓϫ̣[ⲱⲱ]ⲣⲉ ϩⲛ̅ⲧⲉⲩϭⲱⲙ ⲛⲉⲧⲟⲩⲱϣϥ̅ ⲉⲛⲉⲛ̅ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲉ ϩⲛ̅ⲟⲩⲃⲱⲗ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲙⲁⲣⲉⲡⲁϩⲣⲟⲟⲩ ⲉⲓ ϣⲁⲣⲟⲧⲛ̅ ⲛⲉⲧⲃⲱ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲉⲛ̣ⲉⲙ̅ⲙⲟⲧ ⲙⲛⲉⲛⲙⲏⲣⲉ ⲙⲛ̇ⲉⲛϩⲁⲣⲙⲟⲥ ⲉⲧⲉⲧⲛ̅ⲃⲱⲗ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲉⲛⲉⲙ̅ⲙⲟⲩⲧ ⲙ̅ⲙⲉⲓ̣ϣⲉ ⲛⲓⲙ̅ ϣⲁ̅ⲉⲓⲛⲏϩ ⲟⲩⲟⲉⲓϣ | [ … ] I invoke you today, Sourokhkhata, these strong ones in their power, who crush the rocks in dissolution! Let my voice come to you, those who dissolve the sinews and the ligaments and the joints, that you might dissolve the sinews of NN, forever! |
| 2 | ϩⲁⲓⲟ | draft · lowHaio |
| 3 | ⲧⲓⲱⲣⲉⲕ ⲉⲣⲟⲧⲛ̅ | I adjure you! |
| 4 | ⲧⲓⲱⲣⲉⲕ ⲉⲛⲉⲧⲛⲣⲁⲛ ⲙⲛ̇ⲛⲉⲧⲛⲫⲏⲗⲁⲕⲧⲏⲣⲱⲛ | I adjure your names and your amulets! |
| 5 | ϩⲁⲓ̣ⲟ̣ ϩ̣ⲁ̣ⲓ̣[ⲟ] | Yea! Yea! |
Provenance
- title
- Curse to undo sinews
- dialect
- sahidic
- source
- Coptic SCRIPTORIUM corpus "magical-papyri", document BKU_1_5
- licence
- CC-BY 4.0
- share
- attribution
- attribution
- Curse to undo sinews from Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (https://copticscriptorium.org), corpus magical-papyri, document BKU_1_5, version 6.3.0 (2026-06-08), annotations by Edward O. D. Love, Lance Martin, Amir Zeldes, Caroline T. Schroeder; source edition T32. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Layers L1/L2 are modified: re-spelled (Cairene) / transliterated (Kemetic) by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
- annotation
- segmentation checked · tagging checked · parsing automatic (SCRIPTORIUM meta.json; document version 6.3.0, 2026-06-08)
- file
- Magic/Magical papyri/BKU_1_5.sahidic.scriptorium.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
- 4 quoted · 0 quoted with the alignment not cross-checked · 1 model drafts (marked “draft”)
- quoted from
- Korshi Dosoo, Edward O. D. Love, Markéta Preininger — aligned in Coptic SCRIPTORIUM magical-papyri, BKU_1_5 (4 lines)
L0 witness
English
Cite as:
Curse to undo sinews. Coptic SCRIPTORIUM corpus "magical-papyri", document BKU_1_5. Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/magic/magical-papyri/bku-1-5.sahidic.scriptorium/. Curse to undo sinews from Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (https://copticscriptorium.org), corpus magical-papyri, document BKU_1_5, version 6.3.0 (2026-06-08), annotations by Edward O. D. Love, Lance Martin, Amir Zeldes, Caroline T. Schroeder; source edition T32. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Layers L1/L2 are modified: re-spelled (Cairene) / transliterated (Kemetic) 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.