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Letter urging the addressee to come quickly TM 141100Theben
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A fragmentary Coptic letter on an ostracon from the Theban area. The writer urges the addressee to come to him quickly, mentions seeking someone and closes by asking to be greeted or sought after 'a hundred times'.
In English machine translation
Go away today, for I will not find you anyway (?). If you want me to find you, when you go to the one who is dead (?), come to me [...] quickly.
[...] to believe
[...] again
[...] quickly [...] again, you
[...] you seek after
[...] not a man (?) of strangers (?)
Ask after me through (?) you a hundred times.
The Coptic is broken and colloquial, so much of the translation is tentative; the closing 'ask after me a hundred times' is a common greeting formula. Greek loanwords such as 'quickly' and 'to believe' appear in the text.
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.