Wadi Sarga Coptic and Greek Texts from the excavations ...

TEXTS. 199
general scheme, though there are minor variations; e. g. the
cpa is not always mentioned and when mentioned varies in
position. In some cases the only personal name (except that of
the clerk Menas) which occurs is followed by KAMAA/; hence
we may conclude that the name is always that of the camel-
driver or other person who carried the wine. The place is al-
ways the same, Nesieu,
so that Menas seems to have had a
special connexion with that estate; and since we have already
seen (introduction to 218} that there is some reason for re-
garding 209, also written by Menas, as a way-bill
rather than
a receipt, it may be conjectured that the ostraca of the present
series are of the same character.
-J- oprAMo nccey ocuo A B op/ [[A . . 10]]
A./ APIA MHNA AflO TOyCJDNGAUIC
Ol/ cJjOp/ GKATON 6IKOCI TGCGpA
Tl/ Ol/ cj>/ PKA. M A./ MINO
s GAAAX/ erp x /
"Field of Nesieu. Thoth i, 2nd convoy; by Apa Menas
from Touo Neaniskon : wine, a hundred and twenty-four phorai
wine, 124 ph. only. Written by
to be no i.
the humble Menas."
1. ncccy. the name is properly neciey. Here there seems
c|>op/ : or perhaps cj>opA (see 848, 2); but the stroke through
p as a sign of abbreviation has been made, and probably the A
belongs
to the deleted word.
2. ToycDtjeArnc : cf. 5^6, 2; 552, 4. There can be no doubt
that the same place is meant throughout, but the reading is
nowhere quite certain, and it seems clear that the spelling varies.
Here ToycunGAuic or TOYANGANIC can be read; in $46 TOBAU/
is the obvious reading, though TOCDAU/ is not quite impossible;
in 552 ToycjDAMGAHic or TOBOAtjGAmc could equally be read.
There can be little doubt that the name is the same as the
ToycD MGAMICK' of WESSELY, Studien X, 25, Tooy NGANICK/ of
BGU. II 553, B, III,
1 3, Tooy NGANICKCDM of BGU. II 556,
II, 7, and Tooy MGANICKOY of P. Lond. Ill, p. in (= MITTEIS,