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Letter about camels and fodder, mentioning the sick brother Papnoute TM 87592Wadi Sarga (Antaipolites)VI - VIII

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A fragmentary Coptic letter on an ostracon from the monastic settlement of Wadi Sarga, addressed to a superior called 'your fatherhood'. The writer arranges for camels to be sent and loaded with fodder, mentions brothers including Papnoute who is ill, and asks that camels be sent back once loaded.

In English machine translation

The [...] beloved [...] First of all [in everything] [...] your fatherhood [...] We are sending 8 [camels to us(?)] so that we may load them with fodder [...] [do] the kindness and give [...] the ... to us, and [we are sending a] brother out with my brother Phi[...] of companions(?) beside them in the [...] Again(?), behold, my brother Papnoute is sick, and the father (papas) also is a little ... Afterwards again, until the ... rises(?) ... out. † And take care of the 3 camels of the wine(?) for us, beside ... which are good. When the camels come up loaded with fodder, send them to us so that we may load them and they may come up. † Farewell in the Lord.

Several lines are damaged and some phrases (e.g. the restored number of camels and the sense of 'nsouer' and 'kelkel') are uncertain. The Coptic word 'sim' means fodder or green herbage carried by the camels.

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.

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Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata · EA 55736 · VI - VIII · Wadi Sarga (Antaipolites)