One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32381

Fragment of a letter from Kopres about artabas of grain TM 32381unbekanntIV

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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] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] 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.

p.nag.hamm.4

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

[r,FrA] τῷ κυρίῳ τῷ α[…] καὶ Εὐναιτ…[…] Κοπρῆς …[…] γίνωσκε …[…] ἑτοιμακέναι τα[…] ἀρτάβας τοῦ Τριφ[…] δὲ ἀρτάβην λεγου[…] κοντα πέμψον[…] αὐτὸ ἀπελυ[…] [r,FrB] […]μεσι[…] […]…ον δε…[…] […]μω…[…] […]ελευ[…] […]υσια[…] […]…σοι[…] […]…ε…[…] […]σαι…[…] […]…ως…[…] […] ο…[…] […]…ονο[……