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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 86827
Letter from Enoch to his parents about twenty pieces of wood TM 86827Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west)1. Hälfte VII
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Fragmentary Coptic letter on an ostracon from a man named Enoch to his father and mother, asking a favour concerning twenty pieces of wood connected with a Zebedaios and promising to account for something. It comes from the Theban west bank (Djeme area, Monastery of Epiphanius) in the first half of the 7th century AD.
In English machine translation
Jesus Christ conquers.
[†] I, Enoch, am writing to his father and his mother: Be so kind as to [...] twenty pieces of wood of Zebedaios (?) [...] I have found it, and I will account [...] for them, and I would not have taken it [...] Do not leave it without wheat (?) [...]
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"His father and his mother" may be a respectful form of address to a monastic superior rather than literal parents. The closing line is uncertain; ⲥⲟⲩⲟ means wheat, but the sense of the phrase is unclear.
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.