Egyptian · AI translation
London Medical Papyrus (BM EA 10059)
English for the 6 passages of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
1.1–1.4
[…] ⸢m⸣ pꜣ ḫzd r[w]d(?) ⸢m⸣j pꜣ swrj jri̯.n =k mw n[,j] ⸢p⸣ꜣy =n m[w],j[j](?) ⸌mj⸍ ⸌pꜣ⸍ ⸌tm⸍ ⸌ꜣ[__]w⸍ ⸌sn[m](?)⸍ ⸌n,⸢tj⸣⸍ […] kꜣ […]
[...] in the mould(?) that grows(?), like the drinking you have done, the water of our [urine](?), like the tm ꜣ[...]w sn[m](?) which [...] kꜣ [...]
[…] ⸢m⸣[n] msi̯.n mn,t
[...] N, born of N.
ḏd.tw rʾ pn zp 7
This spell is to be said seven times.
k.t
Another.
Translator's note. 1.1 is badly damaged and largely obscure: ḫzd taken as 'mould, rot', rwd as 'grow', mwjj as 'urine'; 'made water' (jri.n=k mw) could also mean 'urinated'. The words from 'like the tm' on are marked ⸌ ⸍ in the edition (probably an addition) and are partly lost.
1.44
[…] [nsy] nb{.t} nsy,t nb.t ḥr-n,tt jr ns[y] [ḥ]ḥi̯ nwn [___] [___] =f
[...] every [nsy-demon], every nsyt-demoness, because, as for the ns[y], Nun [s]eeks [...] [...] him.
Translator's note. nsy and nsyt are a disease or disease-demon, male and female. The end of the line is broken, and 'Nun seeks' is uncertain (perhaps 'the nsy who seeks Nun').
1.140–1.144
[…] ⸢šni̯⸣ wḫd jm zp 4
[...] conjure(?) the wḫd there. Four times.
jw mꜣ[.n] =[j] [jw] [ḫpr] [m-ꜥ[.w]] =[j]
[I have] seen [it come about at my hand].
šn,t n.t ḥmk,t m ḏd n[,j] ḫꜣs,tj
Conjuration of the ḥmkt, in the speech of the foreigner:
[…] [___]~pꜣ Jmn,y tr kꜣ =k kꜣ~[___]
[...] [...]-pa Imeny ter ka-ek ka-[...]
[…] [__]~rʾ~qꜣ rʾ~bw~nꜣ rʾ~qꜣ~[__]
[...] [...]-ra-qa ra-bu-na ra-qa-[...]
Translator's note. wḫd: a pain-causing matter in the body. 1.141 is almost wholly restored. ḥmkt is an unidentified ailment. 1.143-1.144 are the foreign words of the incantation, given in transcription; the edition parses part of 1.143 as Egyptian ('Ameny ... your ka').
1.163–1.165
šn,t n.t tj-n,t-ꜥꜣm,w.pl m ḏd n =f Kꜣ~f~tjw
Conjuration of the tj-n.t-ꜥꜣmw (the [disease] of the Asiatics), as the Keftiu say for it:
sꜣ~n~tj kꜣ~pw~pj~wꜣ~y j~y~mꜥ~n~tj~rʾ~kꜣ~kꜣ~rʾ
Sa-n-ti ka-pu-pi-wa-y i-ya-ma-n-ti-ra-ka-ka-ra.
ḏd.tw rʾ pn ḥr gꜣš.w n[,j] ꜥwꜣ,yt mw,yt šb,t(?)
This spell is to be said over gꜣš of ꜥwꜣyt, urine(?) and šbt(?).
Translator's note. The Keftiu are usually taken to be Cretans; 1.164 is the foreign-language incantation, given in transcription. gꜣš may be a reed; ꜥwꜣyt is perhaps a fermented or rotting substance (ꜥwꜣ 'rot, ferment'); mwyt taken as urine; šbt is marked doubtful in the edition and unidentified.
1.393
j Ḥr,w j Rꜥw j Šw j Gbb j Wsjr j Ḥkꜣ.w j Nwn jꜣ,wj n =[t]n nṯr.pl ꜥꜣ.w jnn.yw ḥr,j{.w.pl} n[.j] dwꜣ,t rḏi̯.yw nm[j] =f r zꜣṯ,w
O Horus, O Ra, O Shu, O Geb, O Osiris, O Heka, O Nun! Praise to you, great gods, who bring the chief of the Duat, who cause him to travel to the ground!
Translator's note. jnn.yw taken as 'who bring'; 'the chief of the Duat' follows the editor, who removes the plural strokes. zꜣṯw is 'ground, floor'.
1.407–1.410
gmi̯.n.tw wḏꜣ,w pn m grḥ hꜣi̯[.w] m wsḫ,t n.t ḥw,t-nṯr m Gbtw m sštꜣ n[,j] nṯr,t tn m-ḏr,t ẖr,j-ḥ[ꜣ]b,t n[,j] rʾ-pr[.w] pn
This remedy was found at night, fallen in the broad hall of the temple in Coptos, as a secret of this goddess, by the hand of the lector priest of this temple.
jstw tꜣ pn m kk,w
Now this land was in darkness,
jn jꜥḥ wbn =f ḥr mḏꜣ,t tn ḥr wꜣ,t =s nb.t
and it was the moon that shone upon this book, on all its ways.
jni̯.n.tw =s m bjꜣ,yt n ḥm n[,j] nsw-bj,t Ḫ[wi̯]≡f-w[j] ⸢mꜣꜥ⸣-[ḫrw]
It was brought as a marvel to the Majesty of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt Khufu, justified.
Translator's note. wḏꜣw taken as 'remedy, healing'; it could also be an amulet. 'On all its ways' is literal (perhaps 'all over it').
The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open London Medical Papyrus (BM EA 10059)).