Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson

Date:
1922
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WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/66
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Credit: Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    El G2Al GYOTN NCIM XOOYCOLY] NAN E€BOA TANOT([NOY } 20 Nél E21 + OYXAL 2MMXxXOEIC “hobo. G8 gl UMIS | Welles 2tOm nish Cdeare ati eres lee efore Pall@thin soil fee, ey ourslativershi pale. fee me | |s| send 8 [camels], that we may (?) load them with fodder(?). [Be so] kind and Send (hl el aceee ] loaves to us and [send?] out the(?) brother and my brother Phi[...], |:0| that they may stay with us in Pic ke. |. For lo, my brother Papnoute is sick (?), and the papa(z2) too will pay (him) a little visit(?). And afterwards he (?) will PaiSCee asl: (3) ts} And provide 3 good camels(4) for wine for us.... When the camels come up (? down) loaded with fodder, send them out(5) to us, that we may(?) load them (with the wine) for coming down (?up). Farewell in the Lord.” 94. P TAAC MMAI@T ATA loycre 2ITNNECNHY MnOzeE Apl TAVANH X€Y NOAMOYA TH poy NAN NCECEKE2 NNEIBHT EMMON WANE! E2pAl NTEYUjH we MIMGjX “Give it to my father, Apa Justus, from the brethren of Pohe (6). Be so kind, send us all the camels, that they (1) Tey? = TNEY. Cf. here TA(P) N-, ME(NN)CWC, E2(p)A1, GJA(K?)-. (2) Cf. 86n. Here? “the priest’. (3) Quite uncertain. Since N6- looks like 2d sing., one might read G@A(K) TWOYN. But GKAKA may be a noun (? cf. QQKEAKEA BuDGE Misc. 6). (4) Or “camel (loads)”, as in 204 etc. Cf. Introduction, § Metrology. (5) “Out”, with verbs of sending, going, coming, generally indicates motion from the desert to the Nile valley. (6) Recurs probably Ryl. 255. Pohe (n)nekam is a place in W. HENGSTEN- BERG, Kopt. Papyri (Munich, J. Rosenthal, 1914), no. 4. Cf.? Bahé, near Man- faltit. On the northern side of Sitit we find Pesh&epohe (ZorGA 307, cf.76 above). But