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A Christian letter of the 4th century AD from Harpokration to his 'father' Sansnos, asking him to persuade a certain Petros to stop pressing the brother Appianos over rents owed by Papnoutios' group and to wait a few days. He also asks Sansnos to obtain ten loads of chaff and report its price.
'Father' and 'brother' are probably terms of address within a Christian, possibly monastic, community rather than family relations. The text comes from papyri recovered from the cartonnage of the Nag Hammadi codex covers.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Harpocration to Sansnos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] τῷ ἀγαπητῷ μου πατρὶ Σανσνῶτι Ἁρποκρατίων πλεῖστα ἐν Κυρίῳ χαίρειν. Πέτρον τὸν ἐνοχλοῦντα τῷ ἀδελφῷ Ἀππιανῷ διὰ τοὺς περὶ Παπνούτιον τῶν ἐκφορίων ἕνεκεν ποίησον ὀλίγας ἔτι ἀνασχέσθαι ἡμέρας ἕως ἂν καιρὸν εὕρωσι ἐλθεῖν πρὸς σὲ καὶ ἀπαλλάξαι τὸ καθʼ ἑαυτούς. οὕτω γὰρ ἠξίωσαν. ἀ…
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