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Letter from Tauak to Eudaimon and Apia about an aroura and wheat TM 33569unbekannt (Frauenkloster Hathor ?)IV

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A Christian letter from a woman named Tauak to Eudaimon and his wife Apia, complaining for the second time about one aroura of land and 6 artabas of wheat owed to her. She stresses that as a woman she cannot afford to buy wheat at current prices and warns them they will answer before God if they defraud her.

In English machine translation

[recto] To my lord brother Eudaimon and to my beloved sister Apia, your wife, Tauak, greeting in the Lord. Before all I pray in my prayers to find you again […] healthy and in good spirits, to find you again […]. This is the second time I write to you about the one aroura. For as you see me in such a situation, and these things not […], that today you have the use (?) of my 6 artabas of wheat that were at hand. And yet you know the price of wheat, that I am a woman, I cannot buy. Nor again did you write, 'We do not want the aroura.' It is […] to take it myself or to give it to Erisias, and what I gave on your account, you ought yourself to have sent me, the six artabas, or whatever for the […]. If you are defrauding me, let me know, and you will see (to it) before God; for we are the treasure of God. I greet all of ours by name, and Poueris greets you all. Farewell […] [verso] To my lord brother Eudaimon […]

Provenance is unknown, possibly the women's monastery of Hathor. 'Brother' and 'sister' may express Christian or monastic fellowship rather than kinship; several passages are damaged and the translation there is approximate.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tauak an Eudaimon und Apia). 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

[r] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Εὐδαίμωνι καὶ τῇ ἀγαπητῇ ἀδελφῇ μου Ἀπίᾳ συμβίῳ σου Ταουὰκ ἐν Κυρίῳ χαίρειν. προηγουμένως εὔχομαι ἐν ταῖς προσευχαῖς μου ὑμᾶς ἀπολαβεῖν …ω ὑγιαίνοντας καὶ εὐθυμοῦντας ἀπολαβεῖν δια…εντα. τοῦτο δεύτερον ὑμῖν γράφω περὶ τῆς ἀρούρης μιᾶς · ὡς γὰρ ἴδετέ με ἐν τοι…