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Title TM 108813
Content medical handbook
Fragments Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 593 a
Support Material papyrus
Date 400 - 599
More from the period between 400 CE and 599 CE
Origin Found: Lykopolis (Lykopolites, Egypt); written: Lykopolis (Lykopolites, Egypt)
More from Found: Lykopolis (Lykopolites, Egypt); written: Lykopolis (Lykopolites, Egypt)
Form and Layout papyrus codex (1 sheet) (columns: 2, written lines: 18, pagination: 168)
Genre magic; iatromancy; recipe; medicine
Culture religion; science
Religion christian
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 108813 [source]

Publications Orientalia 4 (1935), p. 192-194 no. 7 (1935)
Inv. no. Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 593 a
Date AD 400 - 599
Language Coptic (Sahidic with sub-Akhmimic / Lycopolite influences)
Provenance Egypt, U13 - Lykopolis (Assiut)[found & written]

Catalog Record: michigan.apis.2602 [xml]

Title collection of magic and medicine (TC)
Author unknown
Summary The content is both magical and medical. Loss of context makes connected translation impossible.
Citations Worrell WH, Orientalia 4, 192-4, 1935
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 593
Support/Dimensions 2 papyri ; 24.4 x 18. cm.
Condition Two sheets of a good papyrus with writing on one side only. The first two lines seem to be complete, but the remaining sixteen have lost from a fourth to a third of their length by the breaking off of the papyrus on the right-hand side of the page. Another break, further to the left, was mended in ancient times, and the text was patched up after a fashion.
Lines 1-18
Recto/Verso Source of description: A; Recto
Hands The sub-Achmimic influence on the shape of certain letters, the date may be rather early. The hand is similar to rude hands often found in magical texts, but much more neat. The pen was stiff, and rather fine for the size of letters.
Origin unknown, possibly written south of Asyut, Upper Egypt
More from unknown, possibly written south of Asyut, Upper Egypt
Language Coptic
Date IV/VI A.D.
More from the period between 300 CE and 599 CE
Note (general) Location: Ann Arbor
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto; Verso is blank
Note (related) -
Subjects -; Magic, Egyptian.; Christian art and symbolism--Egypt.; Medicine--Egyptian; Papyrus; subliterary; medical and magical
Images Recto medium
Images Recto large
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

"(Christian sign) Concerning the Three, Three:;Take a sheet (of papyrus) and write upon it (the signs?) and the names. He will recover. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.;;Blessed art thou, O Lord, that sittest above the Cherubin ...... that stand in his presence. Blessed art thou ..... to judge the quick and and the dead ..... and seven archangels ...... Suruel and Trimuel ..... mayest thou bring bring out of every room (?)...... Run! Straightway! Straightway! Quickly! Quickly!;;For you to ......:;..... finely powdered dung, 1/2 oz.....;Arsenic, 1 dr.;Take a bundle of ..... with one another, and remove their liquid from them...... and add (?) them to the ......., and put them upon ......;;For a man whose spleen is diseased:;Take .... of pepper and a sextarius of asplinium ...... malobathrum and a steere ..... of genuine oil, and rub them with ......"