p.brux.bawit.53
[… ? lines lost …] ⲧⲛⲁⲓⲧⲓ δέ ⲛⲙⲱⲧⲛ ⲉⲧⲣ[…] ⲛⲧⲉ ⲡϫⲟⲉⲓⲥ οἰκονομεῖν ⲛⲙ…[…] ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ ϩⲛ ⲧβοήθεια ⲛⲧⲉτριάς ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲁⲁⲃ †
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End of a letter with a request and Trinitarian farewell TM 109864HermopolitesVIII
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Closing lines of a Coptic letter in which the writer makes a request of the recipients and ends with a farewell invoking the help of the Holy Trinity. It dates to the 8th century AD and comes from the Hermopolite nome, probably from the monastic site of Bawit.
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
But I ask you to […]
of the Lord to manage (?) with […] [Farewell in the] help of the Holy Trinity. †
The beginning of the letter is lost and the farewell formula is partly restored. The Greek loanword oikonomein can mean 'to manage' or 'to arrange' and here may refer to God's providence.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.