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A Coptic letter on an ostracon from Thebes in which the writer greets Amoses and Psate and complains that, despite repeated requests, they have not sent him a book. He also asks them to send a tremissis (a gold coin) and a pound of wool.
The tremissis was a Byzantine gold coin worth one third of a solidus. The sender's name is damaged, and the phrase rendered 'making a request' is a tentative reading of an obscure expression.
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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