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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 140996
Letter from Moyses asking a superior to send someone TM 140996Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from Thebes, signed by Moyses, asking a senior cleric (addressed as 'your fatherliness') to kindly send someone, if the matter is lawful and agreeable to him. It closes with a greeting in the Lord.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Be so kind: if the law (?) is with you, and if the matter is pleasing to your fatherliness, send him to me with my twin (?)
[...]
[verso] ... so that we may bring him to you (?).
Farewell in the Lord.
Moyses
The Coptic is abbreviated and partly obscure; 'mpahatre' is taken here as 'my twin', possibly a personal name or byname, and the verso phrase is uncertain. 'Your fatherliness' is a respectful address to a monk or priest.
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.