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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 220175
Letter to a priest and the brother Psate asking that an old man be brought south TM 220175Theben
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Coptic ostracon letter from Theban area, addressed to a priest called 'my father' and to the writer's brother Psate and Zael. After greetings, the writer asks that, if the old man is with them, Psate bring him south to the writer.
In English machine translation
[…] my father, the priest,
and my brother Psate, Zael his […]
We greet your fatherliness, fathers, with
the whole fullness of our soul.
Do the kindness, if the old man
is with you, let my brother
Psate bring him south to us, and
[…] Behold, the wage (?) has come to (?)
the north (?) […]
[…]
The end of the text is damaged and the reading of lines 8-9 is uncertain. 'Fatherliness' (mntmainoute here, literally 'god-loving-ness') is a Coptic honorific form of address.
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.