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A fragmentary Coptic letter from western Thebes, written in the first half of the 7th century AD, in which the senders ask the recipients to urge the village headman Elisaios to have a certain Jacob produce a will. The will concerns the priest Apa Victor, and the senders want the truth established about what was signed while he was still alive.
A lashane was a village headman or local official, a title with no exact English equivalent. The phrase "while he was still in the body" means while he was still alive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter). 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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