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Letter of Moses about rope bundles sent through Psate TM 220290Theben

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Coptic letter on an ostracon from Thebes in which a certain Moses, styling himself 'the least', tells the recipient that he has sent two bundles of rope through Psate and asks him to accept them again this year as in past years. He also asks for wine for a feast-day offering and sends greetings from the brothers.

In English machine translation

Since I told you about the two bundles of nouh-rope that you would be kind enough to take them from me this year again, now, look, I have sent them by the hand of Psate. And if you need a few more, send (word) and I will send them, these which I sent being written (down). If you say that I do it, I will do it again. As you were kind to me in the past years, do it again this year, so that I may give thanks to you. Do the charity, as at every time, and be kind, if the matter pleases you. Send me a wine-jar (?) for the offering of the feast of […]. All the brothers greet you. Take the offering at the feast. Farewell in the holy Trinity. Moses, the least.

The rope (nouh) bundles may be part of an arrangement in which the recipient buys or takes the sender's produce each year; the passage about wine for the feast offering is damaged and its sense is uncertain.

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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