o.sarga.88
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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 87587
Request to deliver goods of Papa Ioannes, sent through Enoch the steward TM 87587Wadi Sarga (Antaipolites)VI - VIII
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from the monastic settlement at Wadi Sarga, asking the recipient as a kindness to hand over certain items connected with Papa Ioannes and to give them to the writer's brother. It was sent through Enoch, the steward (oikonomos), and dates to the 6th to 8th century AD.
In English machine translation
Do me the kindness (agape) and give 2 (?) ... of the ... of Papa Ioannes; it is a matter of urgency (?). As you said, 'I will not go out (?) ... without their mat (?)', I said to you, 'the brothers cover you (?)'.
Now give them ... give it
to my brother ... Through
Enoch the oikonomos.
Several Coptic words in this note are obscure and the translation of the middle section is very tentative. An oikonomos was the steward who managed a monastery's property.
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.