Letter to Apa Moses about a camel and a copy of a letter TM 86874Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west)1. Hälfte VII

A Coptic letter on an ostracon addressed to Apa Moses and carried by his son Moses, dealing with a she-camel, a request to send a camel travelling south, and a copy of a letter handed to Apa Ananias. The writer asks for Moses' prayers. It dates to the first half of the 7th century AD, from the Theban area.

In English machine translation

The opening greeting and several line ends are lost, so parts of the camel passage are uncertain. The word ⲧⲃⲗϫⲉ may refer to a pottery vessel or sherd; its sense here 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.