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bgu.3.948 IV - VHerakleopolis
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Letter from Kophaena to her son Theodoulos complaining of neglect. A private Christian letter from a mother, Kophaena, to her son Theodoulos, reproaching him for not writing or sending anything during her thirteen-month illness. She asks him for flax, a grain allowance and black wool for a mantle. Herakleopolis, 4th-5th century AD. machine translation
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- Ein Privatbrief HGV-meta HerakleopolisIV - V
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
χμγ χμγ χμγ
τῷ υἱῷ μου Θεοδούλῳ παρὰ τῆς μητρός σου Κοφαήνας καὶ Ζήνωνος χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαι τὸν παντοκράτορα θεὸν τὰ περὶ τῆς ὑγιείας σου
καὶ ὁλοκληρίας σου χάριν. γινώσκειν σε θέλω ὅτι εἶπέν
σοι ὁ πραγματευτὴς ὅτι ἡ μήτηρ σου Κοφαήνα
ἀσθενεῖ, ἰδοῦ, δέκα τρεῖς μῆνες καὶ ἂν ἐπιστολὴν
οὐκ ἐτόρμηκας ἐμοὶ γράψεν ὅτι οἰδας καὶ σεαυτοῦ
ὅτι καλλιότερον τῶν …[…]ιων υ[…]ιων …υ ἐποίησα
μετὰ σοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐτόρμησάς σοι ἀκούσας ὅτι
νοσῶ οὐκ ἐτόρμησας πέμψεν μοι καὶ ἂν ἐξ ὀλίγου τί ποτε. θέλησον οὖν πέμψειν μοι δέκα λίτρας λινάρων καὶ ποιῶ σοι ἱμάτια πρὸς τὸ δύναμαι, ὅτι οὐδὲν ἔχω τί ποιήσω σοι. θέλησον οὖν
ποιήσειν μοι μικρὰν σιταρχίαν καὶ ἐγὼ ἀποστελῶ
σοι μεκ……αι…μα[…] προσαγορεύει σε
ἄμμα σου καὶ ἐγὼ Κοφήνα καὶ ὁ υἱός σου
Ζήνων καὶ ἡ ἀδελφή σου Κυρίλλα καὶ τὰ παιδία
αὐτῆς. θέλησον οὖν υἱέ μου Θεόδουλε ἀγοράσειν
μοι ϛ λίτρας ἐριδίου μέλανος, ἵνα ποιήσω ἐμαυτῇ μαφόριον καὶ ἀποστελῶ σοι τὸ κέρμα ὅσου αὐτὰ ἀγορᾷ.
ἐρρῶσθαί σεεὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις.
[v]
ἀπόδος ταύτην Θεοδούλῳ
παρὰ Κοφαήνης
☧Translations (1)
[recto]
ChMG ChMG ChMG
To my son Theodoulos, from your mother Kophaena and from Zenon, greetings. Before all else I pray to God the Almighty for your health and wellbeing. I want you to know that the agent told you that your mother Kophaena is ill, look, thirteen months now, and you have not dared to write me even a letter, though you know yourself that I did better […] with you, and you did not dare, having heard that I am sick, you did not dare to send me even a little something. Please, then, send me 10 pounds of flax, and I will make you clothes as far as I can, since I have nothing to make for you. Please, then, make me a small allowance of grain, and I will send you […]. Your mother greets you, I Kophena, and your son Zenon and your sister Kyrilla and her children. Please, then, my son Theodoulos, buy me 6 pounds of black wool, so that I may make myself a mantle, and I will send you the money for whatever it costs.
I pray for your health for many years.
[verso]
Deliver this to Theodoulos from Kophaena.
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