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[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] […]ϣⲓⲛⲉ ⲉⲣⲟⲕ ⲧⲱⲛⲉ […] ⲛⲧⲁⲧⲉϥⲙⲁⲁⲩ […]ϫⲡⲟϥ ⲉⲡⲉκόσμος […] ⲙⲛⲛⲥⲱⲥ ⲁⲣⲓⲧἀγάπη […]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 220134
Fragment of a letter mentioning a birth TM 220134Theben
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A small fragment of a Coptic letter on an ostracon from Thebes. The surviving lines contain a greeting, a mention of someone's mother giving birth to a person into the world, and a polite request introduced by "be so kind".
In English machine translation
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[…] [greet] you. Where […] whose mother […] gave birth to him into the world […] [After] this, be so kind […]
"Be so kind" renders the Coptic formula built on Greek agape (literally "do the love"), a standard polite introduction to a request. The text belongs to the ostraca of the Frange archive from the Theban area, probably 7th-8th century AD, but no date is recorded.
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.