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Business letter from the reader Senouthes to his patron Kyros TM 140870Hermopolites (?)VIII

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Fragmentary Coptic business letter from Senouthes, a church reader, to his patron Kyros, reporting the dispatch of goods (possibly boats or boatloads and wood) on Mesore 30 through a certain Serene son of Temchir. It dates to the 8th century AD and probably comes from the Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] † First of all, I greet (lit. do obeisance at) the footstool of the feet of your [God-honoured lordship] […] of thirty (?), may God protect him for us. Here are these three boats (?) of […] which is the 30th of Mesore, through Serene son of Temchir; and here is the wood of […] […] I have sent them. Here, the boats (?) I have sent […] […] write, I will send the remaining […] […] master † [verso] [†] To the God-protected master, after God patron, the most glorious Kyros † Senouthes, reader, his servant †

The address on the verso is in Greek, the letter in Coptic. The reading of ϫⲟⲓ as 'boats' and ϣⲉ as 'wood' is a working interpretation of a damaged text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of business letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VIII · Hermopolites (?)

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