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Letter from Enoch to his parents about twenty pieces of wood. Fragmentary Coptic letter on an ostracon from a man named Enoch to his father and mother, asking a favour concerning twenty pieces of wood connected with a Zebedaios and promising to account for something. It comes from the Theban west bank (Djeme area, Monastery of Epiphanius) in the first half of the 7th century AD. machine translation
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TM 86827.
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- Letter HGV-meta Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west)1. Hälfte VII
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Transcription
Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς νικᾷ
† ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ⲉⲛⲱⲭ ⲉϥⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲛⲁⲡⲉϥⲉⲓⲱⲧ
ⲙⲛⲧⲉϥⲙⲁⲁⲩ ϫⲉ ⲁⲣⲓ ⲧἀγάπη ⲛⲧⲉ[…] ϫⲱⲟⲩⲧ ⲛϣⲉ ⲛⲍⲉⲃⲉⲇⲁⲓⲟⲥ
[…] ϯϭⲛⲧⲥ ⲁⲩⲱ ϯⲛⲁἀπολογίζεσθαι
[…] ϩⲁⲣⲟⲟⲩ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲛⲉⲓⲁϫⲓⲧⲥ
ⲙⲡⲉⲣⲕⲱ ⲛϣⲟⲩⲛⲉϥ ⲥⲟⲩⲟ
[…]…Translations (1)
Jesus Christ conquers.
[†] I, Enoch, am writing to his father and his mother: Be so kind as to [...] twenty pieces of wood of Zebedaios (?) [...] I have found it, and I will account [...] for them, and I would not have taken it [...] Do not leave it without wheat (?) [...]
[...]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 86827 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.mon.epiph;;294 tier-1
- HGV-Text 86827 tier-1
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