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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 220238
Fragment of a Coptic letter mentioning a solidus TM 220238Theben
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A small fragment of a Coptic ostracon from Thebes, probably a letter, mentioning a solidus (gold coin), "the remaining" amount and an answer or reply. Only isolated words survive.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] … [?]
[…] … look (?) […]
the solidus […]
and you […] …
even if the […]
the remaining […] […]
it … […]
the answer […]
to you, the […]
[…]
The holokottinos is the Byzantine gold solidus. Identifying the text as a letter is a guess based on the mention of a reply (apokrisis) and the second-person forms.
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.