Fragments of a Greek letter from Kopres to a man he addresses as his lord, mentioning someone named Eunait…, artabas of grain that have been made ready, and a request to send something. It dates to the 4th century AD and comes from the papyri recovered from the cartonnage of the Nag Hammadi codices.
In English machine translation
[recto, fragment A]
To my lord, the […]
and Eunait… […]
Kopres […]
Know […]
that (I/he) have prepared […]
artabas of Triph[…]
[…] artaba, saying (?) […]
[…]-ty (?) send […]
it, released (?) […]
[recto, fragment B]
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[…] I pray for your health
[…] for many years […]
[verso]
[… lines lost …]
Fragment B preserves only letter traces apart from the closing farewell formula. The name Triph[…] is broken and could belong to a person or a place.
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 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.