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Letter from Phoibammon to the monk Emouthios about their father's illness TM 33182unbekanntIV - VII

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A Christian letter from Phoibammon to the monk Emouthios. Having heard from his wife that their spiritual father is unwell, Phoibammon sends a letter-carrier asking for news of his health, asks Emouthios to kiss the father's feet for him, and apologizes for not having sent Isidoros sooner.

In English machine translation

[verso] I learned from your maidservant, my wife, that our most God-beloved common master, our father, is a little unwell, and I was worried beyond measure, so that I was compelled to send the letter-carrier to your brotherly piety, so that through him you might inform me about his health, than which nothing is more precious to me. I therefore ask it (your piety) above all to kiss his honoured feet on my behalf, and then, as I said before, to inform me of his health through the letter-carrier. I ask you also to forgive me that until now I have not thought to send Isidoros to you […] for the […] letter-carrier knows […] with diving (?) and very muddy (?) […] So order that a small boat (?) be brought out so that I may send to you […] I, Phoibammon, the least servant, do obeisance to and greet your brotherly God-belovedness and ask it […] […] of our most holy father I do obeisance […] my father; and since the common […] and not a little and greatly was troubled […] of the reading of my most humble letter […] I may be relieved of worry, since […] Farewell in the Lord. † [recto] To my master in all things, the most God-beloved brother Emouthios, monk, from Phoibammon.

"Father" probably refers to a spiritual father or abbot rather than a blood relative. The word paktonarin (rendered "small boat") and the phrases about diving and mud are obscure in the damaged passage.

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

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

[v] ἔγνων παρὰ τῆς δούλης ὑμῶν, τῆς γυναικός μου, ὡς ὁ θεοφιλέστατος κοινὸς δεσπότης, ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν, ὀλίγον ἀηδίζεται καὶ ἐφρόντισα οὐ μετρίως ὥστʼ ἐμὲ ἀναγκασθῆναι πέμψαι τὸν γραμματηφόρον πρὸς τὴν ὑμετέραν ἀδελφικὴν εὐλάβειαν, ἱνα διʼ αὐτοῦ σημᾶναί μοι περὶ τῆς ὑγιείας αὐτοῦ, ἧς…