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Fragment of a monastic letter to a God-loving father TM 118122BawitVIII

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Fragment of a Coptic letter from a monastic setting, written by brothers to a God-loving superior addressed as lord and father. It mentions their arrival, brothers who came, a need connected with some work that was not given to them, and closes asking for his holy prayers. From Bawit, 8th century.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] and after we came, we found(?) your God-loving holiness […] […] of the boat(?), whether to you in anything at all. The brothers who came […] in the midst of everyone. God knows that I came, that to you […] my God-loving lord and father, to order them (?) […] […] upon us, that we have finished what was ours, until we came […] to us, according to the glory(?) that happened in your midst. They did not give (?) to Djor (?) […] […] found that it is a need of the work, and […] instead of the 23rd(?) they left […] concerning the need which you […], they did not give it to us. These things we write […] and remember us in your holy prayers, our lord […]

Line ends are lost throughout, so many phrases are uncertain; "Djor" may be a personal name or a verb form. "Your God-loving holiness" is a standard honorific for a monastic superior.

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

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p.bawit.clackson.81

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VIII · Bawit

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