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[…]… […]ἐλάχιστος […]ⲓⲛⲉ […]…ⲙ …[…]ⲣⲁ… … ⲙⲉⲣⲁⲧⲉ ⲛⲥⲛⲏⲩ ⲙⲙⲁⲓⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲙⲙⲁⲓⲣⲱⲙⲉ ⲉⲧφoρεῖν ⲛⲁⲙⲉ
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 219917
Fragment of a letter to beloved brothers TM 219917Theben
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Fragment of a Coptic ostracon from Thebes, apparently a letter. Only the opening survives, with the writer calling himself 'the least' and addressing his beloved, God-loving and man-loving brothers.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] the least
[…]
[…]
[…]
… beloved brothers, God-loving,
man-loving, who wear (?) truly (?) […]
'The least' (elachistos) is a conventional self-humbling epithet of monastic letter writers. The last phrase is uncertain; 'who wear' may refer to wearing the monastic habit.
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.