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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 140976
Letter to brother Pher requesting material for brickmaking TM 140976Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from the Theban area, in which the writer greets a brother named Pher and asks him to provide a quantity of some material, apparently for brickmaking, promising not to delay in repaying or returning it. It closes with a Christian farewell.
In English machine translation
[recto]
My brother Pher (?), I greet your angel.
Do the great charity
and give a bundle (?)
of one hundred psate (?)
[…]
[verso]
and bring it to me so that I may brick (it?).
The bundle (?): I will not delay
to give it to you.
Send it to my
great Kob (?).
Farewell
in the Lord.
Several words (ⲡⲁⲣⲕ, ⲯⲁⲧⲉ, ⲕⲱⲃ) are of uncertain meaning, so the requested item and the quantity are doubtful. The greeting 'I greet your angel' is a common Coptic letter formula.
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.