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

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/66
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    143/264 (page 115)
    TEXTS. 1415 3. 8: d_correétion. 5. If the explanation given above is correct, a figure ought to follow a, but there is no trace of one. Perhaps it was acci- dentally omitted (note that the clerk at first omitted r in 1. 3); or it may just possibly have been lost; A in |. 6 seems to have lost part of its downstroke. ; 6. The translation supposes that Kecd*/ is zeganatov, 7. e. the original stock of wine from which the amounts noted above were taken. Thus this line gives the remainder still in hand. But it is curious that pred and peyarxn are lumped together. 127. Account of Wine. The left side of this. ostracon is very dark, and Ol) is guessed at rather than read; but it is probable that wine is in question. MEKp/ = pixod. Joy meKp/ Or Ol/| MEKP/ : plo ] otf meKp/ Piz Ol) MEK]p/ TKB 5 ] ov MEKP/ : Tz 128. Tax(?)-List. Papyrus. : 6 MACON ANA[PEAC 1 if 2ZENCNHY NTE NKOYT Npnnye Bu a rEwmpre prAak NCBH2T CXOAAC ae AAYGIA, nicyMm [ | On other side (recto), end of a xpders. From a list of dates, names and perhaps taxes (cf. a- Soiseg2 in 3). In 2 “brethren of the small temples‘‘ implies perhaps a monastic settlement among ancient ruins(1). In 3 (1) Ibn Dukmak V, 17 mentions 2 villages in middle Egypt named El-Birba el Kabir and el-Sughair respectively, “the great’ and “the small temples’. Monks as well as peasants doubtless utilised the ruins: witness the Christian remains in the temples of Denderah and Medinet Habu. Se