Writing exercise based on a request for release TM 129779ÄgyptenVII

A fragmentary writing exercise from 7th-century Egypt, modelled on a request to a lord ("your lordship") asking for someone's release. The writer repeats syllables and words such as "release" and "him", and the text states that the man concerned "is my man".

In English machine translation

The repeated fragments (apol, aut, au) are practice syllables, typical of a scribal exercise, and are transliterated rather than translated. The request formula imitates the language of petitions and letters to superiors.

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