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

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TEXTS, Shi 1. Phasei, like Heraclammon in 367, is perhaps the clerk. paceiae, “French beans’’, seems impossible. 2. € hopp: for a 5th convoy see 355, 4, and note, KY AAT: the reading of the first three letters is very uncertain, but -the> second 1s“elther x or wy.-For the name Heke chi lhiiesi(=- Peoly Ryl. 2r2 im’ Pond. IW, index, What is meant by this string of names preceded by A/ is not clear. We can hardly suppose that Pgol was the consignor and the others successive agents, through whose hands the consign- ment had passed. The others, however, or perhaps all, may be camel-drivers who had brought portions of the consignment (cf. below); John and Pamoun, at all events, are known as camel-drivers. But in that case it is strange that the names are given in this way, not connected by xa. 5. NKAMHAAIOY : possibly t is to be taken as the plur. article before zaysicv, “camel(-loads)”, but it might also be the geni- ‘tive particle or dative. Can the word be regarded as an attempt at LOA, by a clerk more at home in Coptic than in Greek? 6. MA.: a correction. An original r is visible. 369. This receipt is exceptional in being a tax-receipt; ef. 3.47. As such it is of some interest, especially as it seems to contain an allusion to the caput or personal unit of taxation; see the references inthe’ note tol) 2, + [{k]] + ecx/ nacon mcooy < Ked/ TETAPTHC INA/ KEP/ AGKANENTE TE 5 TAPTON i/ K/ 16 A’ AAES/ XOIAK | z / INA se © OPMEIAC A/ KDNCTAN TIOC Crorxel MO! -+ (2nd hand?) MHNAC AMA MOYC[. .JC Crore! + 14¥

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