One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 87652
Order from Enoch to Apa Mina for delivery of wine TM 87652Wadi Sarga6thC-8thC
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A short Coptic order on an ostracon from Enoch to Apa Mina asking him to hand over 11 small measures of wine from the vineyard of Apa Petros, to be taken by a certain Pargamos to the place of Apa Makare. Enoch confirms it with his signature, and the text was written by Phoibammon on Mesore 20.
In English machine translation
† Give it to Apa
Mina, from
Enoch his father. Do the kindness (agape) and give 11 small (measures) of lahe-wine
of the vineyard of Apa Petros
[…] Pargamos, so that he may [take them] to the place of Apa Makar[e]. [† Total:] wine, small (measures), 11. † So that
you may not doubt, I have signed
with my hand. † Written Mesore 20.
† Enoch agrees.
† Through me, Phoibammon,
it was written.
The meaning of lahe, a wine term, is uncertain; 'small' refers to a small measure or jar of wine. The mention of Enoch as 'his father' may be a monastic title rather than a family relationship.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Legal-financial text.). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.sarga.169
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