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Letter about a skin and a basket of bread TM 220181Theben

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A Coptic letter on an ostracon from the Theban region, in which a humble writer acknowledges a letter from a fellow monk or 'brother', reports taking a skin (?) to the place Pjinehre, and asks him to fill a basket of bread and keep it until he arrives. It ends with a farewell and an invocation of the Holy Trinity.

In English machine translation

We received the letter of your God-loving brotherliness. We learned of your health through it. As your brotherliness wrote to us about the skin (?): be so kind and give the other […] us. I went with the skin to Pjinehre, so that […] tomorrow I may take it and come […] this most humble one. I greet your brotherliness greatly […] a little more, as your brotherliness […] give me […] But be so kind and fill a basket of bread […] take it in to you until I come […] lest I meet him, because it is a need […] greatly, and so that we may settle […] Farewell in the Lord. The Holy Trinity.

The word ϣⲁⲁⲣ ordinarily means 'skin' or 'hide'; its exact sense here is uncertain. 'This most humble one' is a conventional monastic self-designation of the writer.

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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Theben

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Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata · Fouilles belges dans la nécropole thébaine, inv. 290319 · Theben