One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 87656
Order from Enoch to Thomas for delivery of wine TM 87656Wadi Sarga6thC-8thC
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A short Coptic order on an ostracon from Wadi Sarga in which Enoch asks Thomas to issue a measure (phora) of wine and another item to a named person. It ends with a Greek summary of the amount, an indiction date in Thoth, and Enoch's signed approval ('I agree').
In English machine translation
† Enoch […]
to my brother Thomas […]:
Please be so kind as to give one phora of wine and one lahe (?) to the teacher (?) Pe[…]
[…] […]ohei (?) † Total: 1 phora of wine, indiction 1, month of Thoth 1
[…] indiction 12, beginning †
[…] [† E]noch
I agree.
A phora was a measure of wine; the second item (lahe) is uncertain. The word read as 'teacher' (sah) may begin a personal name or title, and the text mentions both indiction 1 and indiction 12.
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.173
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