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Letter requesting messengers to be sent and a visit on Sunday TM 220318Theben

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A fragmentary Coptic letter on an ostracon from the Theban region, in which the writer begs a fellow monk or brother to send men named Pseio and Psate on errands and to come without delay. It ends with a request that someone come to the writer on Sunday.

In English machine translation

[recto] [...] I beseech your brotherliness that, when you receive the letter, you will do the great kindness and be so good as to send(?) Pseio [...] and he will bring them to us straight(?) and [...] his need(?), you will ... and him ... [...] [...] ... us to trust in these things, that [...] [...] that a sextarius (xestes) [...] [...] in the place [...] ... [...] [...] ... [...] [verso] Since I have written ... [...] [...] do the kindness, do not delay in [coming] straight(?) and you ... [...] when you receive this sherd, do the kindness and send Psate to Tymamen(?) and let him look [for a] mankamoul (?) [...] [...] ... some straight(?) [...] [...] see(?) each one of them [...] [...] them. For indeed I [...] [...] him to each one, saying, 'Come to us on Sunday.'

The word ⲛⲥⲟⲟⲩⲧⲛ, repeated several times, literally means 'straight' or 'directly', and its exact sense here is uncertain. The term mankamoul and the place Tymamen are unclear readings.

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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