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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 86847
Coptic letter about a consignment sent up to the mountain TM 86847Theben (Ägypten)1. Hälfte VII
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Fragment of a Coptic letter on an ostracon from the monastic community of Epiphanius at Thebes, in which the writer reports what happened to a consignment, apparently of wheat, sent up to the mountain and the dispute over dividing or handling it. It dates to the first half of the 7th century AD.
In English machine translation
You should know that when you sent the wheat (?) in, we went up to the mountain. I went up so that I might divide them. They said, "Why? We have left them until we take the others." When we had left them until today, they went to measure (?) them. I said, "[…]
… measure (?) them […]
[…]
The text is Coptic, not Greek. The readings of 'wheat' (souo) and of the verb rendered 'measure' are uncertain, and 'the mountain' is the usual term for the desert edge where the monasteries stood.
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.