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ⲁⲓϫⲓ ⲛⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲛⲧⲉⲕⲙⲛⲧⲥⲟⲛ […] ⲁⲓⲉⲓⲙⲉ ⲉⲣⲟⲟⲩ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲛⲉⲧⲁⲕ[…]ⲙⲟ ϫⲓⲧⲟⲩ ⲟⲩⲱϣ οὖν ϯⲟⲩⲛⲟⲩ ⲉⲧⲕⲛⲁϫⲓ ϯἐπιστολή ⲧⲛⲛⲟⲩ ⲡⲉⲕσύμμαχος ⲛⲁⲓ ⲙⲛ ⲛⲕⲁⲙⲁⲩⲗⲉ … ⲁⲧⲛⲛⲟⲟⲩ …ⲡ ⲛⲁⲛ […] ἀλλά ⲁⲩⲣ…ⲛⲛⲟⲩ …ⲁⲓⲟ […]ⲥⲛⲁⲩ ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 86879
Letter asking for a courier to be sent with the camel drivers TM 86879Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west)1. Hälfte VII
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A fragmentary Coptic letter on an ostracon acknowledging receipt of the addressee's letters. It asks him to send his courier together with camel drivers as soon as this letter arrives. It comes from western Thebes in the first half of the 7th century AD.
In English machine translation
I have received the letters of your brotherhood […]
I have understood them, and those that you […]
take them. Now, the very hour that you receive this letter, send your symmachos (courier) to me with the camel drivers (?)
[…] […] send […] to us
[…] but […] […]
[…] two (?). Farewell.
A symmachos was a messenger or courier in the service of monasteries and officials in this period. The reading of the word for camel drivers is uncertain.
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.