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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 130890
Letter from Markos to his brother Moses about sending papyrus TM 130890Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from the Theban area. Markos greets his brother Moses, promises to send papyrus if the Lord wills, and apologizes for not having found a way to send it so far.
In English machine translation
I greet your brotherliness. If the Lord wills, I will send (?) papyrus […] forgive (?) me, because I did not find a way to send them.
Now I wish (?) […]
a man (?). My brother Moses.
Markos.
The middle of the text, around the papyrus and the request for forgiveness, is hard to construe, and the translation there is tentative. 'Brotherliness' is a polite form of address between monks.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.