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Letter about a tablet and ink sent through Athanasios TM 141002Theben

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Fragmentary Coptic ostracon letter from Thebes. The writer tells a brother to come alone if Andreas does not come with him, and asks him to take Elias's tablet and the ink and pass them on so that the ink can be sent back through Athanasios.

In English machine translation

[…] work (?) […] ink (?) […] […] send it out […] come alone […] brother, if Andreas […] does not come with you, come by yourself. Do not bring any other man into the house (?). Take the tablet of Elias and the ink, and give them to my twin (?), and let him send the ink to me through Athanasios. Farewell in the Lord.

The opening is lost. The rendering of some words, such as the phrase about the house and ⲡⲁϩⲁⲧⲣⲏ ("my twin"), 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.

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