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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 141009
Letter to brother Lazaros asking him to come and bring oil TM 141009Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from Thebes asking a brother named Lazaros to drop everything and come early. The writer also asks him to fill a jar with oil and bring it, promising that God will repay him many times over.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Please, my brother Lazaros, leave everything behind you and come to me early.
[verso]
This is the one (?) I found you. Fill this jar (?) of oil and bring it to me. God will give it back to you many times over, manifold, manifold.
The opening of the verso is obscure and its translation is tentative; 'tee ekōne' is taken here as a vessel. The repeated 'nkōb nkōb' is a blessing formula meaning manifold repayment.
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.