p.nag.hamm.81
[… ? lines lost …] […]ατω […]αυτα ἀγορ[…] […]αταυ… […]…παρα […]υτωτασι …[…]…[…]η ἀδελφη …[…]…ς ἃ παρεθέμην σοι. ἀλλὰ μὴ ἀπολείψῃς τὸν παῖδα ἐν τοσούτῳ. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι κύριέ μου πολλοῖς χρόνοις.
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End of a letter about entrusted goods and a boy TM 32421unbekanntIV
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Fragmentary end of a private letter of the 4th century AD. The writer mentions a sister and things entrusted to the recipient, asks him not to abandon the boy meanwhile, and closes with a farewell to 'my lord'.
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
[…]
[…] these things […] buy (?) […]
[…]
[…] from […]
[…]
[…] the sister […]
what I entrusted to you.
But do not abandon the boy (slave?) in the meantime.
I pray that you are well, my lord, for many years.
The Greek pais can mean either 'child' or 'slave'. The text belongs to the Nag Hammadi papyri, recovered from the cartonnage of the codex bindings.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.