o.sarga.94
ⲧⲁⲁⲥ ⲙⲡⲁⲓⲱⲧ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲓⲟⲩⲥⲧⲉ ϩⲓⲧⲛ ⲛⲉⲥⲛⲏⲩ ⲙⲡⲟϩⲉ ⲁⲣⲓ ⲧἀγάπη ϫⲉⲩ ⲛϭⲁⲙⲟⲩⲗ ⲧⲏⲣⲟⲩ ⲛⲁⲛ ⲛⲥⲉⲥⲉⲕⲉϩ ⲛⲛⲉⲓⲃⲏⲧ ⲉⲙⲙⲟⲛ ϣⲁⲛⲉⲓ ⲉϩⲣⲁⲓ ⲛⲧⲉⲩϣⲏ ⲙⲡϣⲁ
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 87593
Letter to Apa Ioustos asking for camels to haul palm leaves TM 87593Wadi Sarga (Antaipolites)VI - VIII
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon addressed to Apa Ioustos, sent via the brothers working in the fields. The writer asks him to send all the camels so that palm material can be hauled, or else the writer will come up that night. It comes from the monastic settlement at Wadi Sarga.
In English machine translation
Give it to my father Apa Ioustos,
through the brothers of the field (?):
Do the charity: send all the camels to us, so that they may drag (in) the palm-leaves (?).
Otherwise I shall come up tonight.
Mpsha (?)
The word ⲃⲏⲧ refers to palm leaves or palm-branch material used in basketry and building; ⲙⲡⲟϩⲉ and the closing ⲙⲡϣⲁ are uncertain in meaning, the latter perhaps a name or a fragment of a formula.
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.