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o.sarga.94
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Letter to Apa Ioustos asking for camels to haul palm leaves. A short Coptic letter on an ostracon addressed to Apa Ioustos, sent via the brothers working in the fields. The writer asks him to send all the camels so that palm material can be hauled, or else the writer will come up that night. It comes from the monastic settlement at Wadi Sarga. machine translation
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TM 87593.
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- Letter HGV-meta Wadi Sarga (Antaipolites)VI - VIII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Coptic
· Coptic
Transcription
ⲧⲁⲁⲥ ⲙⲡⲁⲓⲱⲧ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲓⲟⲩⲥⲧⲉ
ϩⲓⲧⲛ ⲛⲉⲥⲛⲏⲩ ⲙⲡⲟϩⲉ
ⲁⲣⲓ ⲧἀγάπη ϫⲉⲩ ⲛϭⲁⲙⲟⲩⲗ ⲧⲏⲣⲟⲩ ⲛⲁⲛ ⲛⲥⲉⲥⲉⲕⲉϩ ⲛⲛⲉⲓⲃⲏⲧ
ⲉⲙⲙⲟⲛ ϣⲁⲛⲉⲓ ⲉϩⲣⲁⲓ ⲛⲧⲉⲩϣⲏ
ⲙⲡϣⲁTranslations (1)
Give it to my father Apa Ioustos,
through the brothers of the field (?):
Do the charity: send all the camels to us, so that they may drag (in) the palm-leaves (?).
Otherwise I shall come up tonight.
Mpsha (?)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 87593 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.sarga;;94 tier-1
- HGV-Text 87593 tier-1
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