Egyptian · AI translation
Papyrus Chester Beatty 8 (BM EA 10688)
English for the 3 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.
8.3
ḥr-n,tj jr nḥb,t =k ṯꜣz,t bqs,w n Nḥb-kꜣ[,w]
because, as for your neck, it is the vertebrae(?) of the backbone of Nehebkau.
Translator's note. ṯꜣzt, 'knot, vertebra', taken with bqsw 'backbone'.
8.96
jw nḥm[.n] =j tw ḫwi̯[.n] =j tw m-ꜥ ꜣḫ,t.pl nb.t bjn[.t] ḏw.t.pl m-ꜥ ḥkꜣ,w.pl nb{t} j:ḏd =st r =k
I have rescued you, I have protected you from every evil and bad spell(?), from every magic that has been spoken against you.
Translator's note. ꜣḫt (plural) taken as 'spells' or spirit-powers; it may stand for jḫt 'thing', as in the formula 'every evil and bad thing'. j:ḏd=st could also be 'that she has spoken'.
8.103–8.110
jr pḥ,[wy]t =k pḥ,[wy]t pw n ꜣs,t
As for your hind-part, it is the hind-part of Isis.
nn sḫm.tw m pḥ,[wy]t =k jn r[m]ṯ.pl ḥmw[,t]-rʾ
Your hind-part shall not be overpowered by people [or] sorcery.
nn ꜥq ḥkꜣ,w.pl nb{t} jrr.t ḥkꜣ,w.pl ḥkꜣ,w[t].pl r =k
No magic that male and female magicians make shall enter against you.
nn ḫpr jri̯.n =sn
What they have done shall not come to pass;
nn sḏm.tw j:ḏd =sn
what they say shall not be heard.
bḥni̯.tw šnꜥ.tw ḥkꜣ,w.pl =sn r rʾ =sn jn Rꜥw ḏs =f
Their magic is cut off and turned back to their mouths by Ra himself.
jw mn msi̯.n mn,t swꜥb mj wꜥb Rꜥw rꜥw-nb
N, born of N, is purified as Ra is pure every day.
jw≡s-pw
It is finished.
Translator's note. ḥmwt-rʾ, literally 'craft of the mouth', is spell-work or sorcery; 'by people [or] sorcery' might also be 'by sorcerous people'.
The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open Papyrus Chester Beatty 8 (BM EA 10688)).