Letter from Klodios to his spiritual father about a search for a boat TM 115539Naqlun (Arsinoites, Ägypten)1. Hälfte VII

Fragmentary Christian letter, attributed to a certain Klodios, written to a spiritual 'master and father', reporting an unsuccessful search for a boat and the writer's exhaustion, and asking for prayers. It greets the abba Menas and mentions a bishop; it is dated Epeiph 20 of an indiction 4 and comes from the monastery site of Naqlun in the Fayum, first half of the 7th century AD.

In English machine translation

'Abba' is a title for a monastic father. The sender's name Klodios comes from the catalogue title, not the surviving text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as A letter from Klodios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.