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A Coptic ostracon letter from Western Thebes in which the writer repeatedly urges the addressee to load an artaba of wheat and deliver it, rejecting the excuse that a father's death prevented him. He asks for the wheat to be left at the place of an old man, appealing 'for God's sake'.
The word read here as a personal name (Pelousios) is uncertain, and the place name rendered 'Ape' and the name 'Kahkiht' are doubtful. Such Theban ostraca from the Frange archive are generally dated to the early 8th century AD.
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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