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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 140931
Letter asking a brother to send a small 'soure' TM 140931Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from the Theban region, in which the writer greets a fellow monk ('your brotherhood') and asks him kindly to send a small quantity of something (souré, perhaps thorn or a small tool) because they have none. It closes with a farewell in the Lord and a request for prayers.
In English machine translation
Before (?)
all things
I write greeting your honoured brotherhood. Be so kind and send [me]
a small thorn (?)
for us; we have none, (or) we will take it for ourselves.
Farewell in
the Lord.
Pray for me.
The opening lines preserve only the formula 'before all things'. The word 'soure' is uncertain in meaning (thorn, awl or a small object); line 6 is difficult and its sense is uncertain.
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.