One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 118278

Fragment of a Coptic text mentioning "my son" TM 118278Bawit (Hermopolites)VIII

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A small fragment of a Coptic text from Bawit in the Hermopolite region, dated to the 8th century AD. Only scattered words survive, including "my son" and "a year", so its purpose cannot be determined.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] … […] […] my son, good (?) […] […] to him in the […] a year […] […] … […] … […] … […] … […] […] … […] … […]

The address "my son" may suggest a letter, perhaps from a monastic superior, as is common among Bawit texts, but too little survives to be sure. The reading "good" is uncertain, since the word is broken.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VIII · Bawit (Hermopolites)

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