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Fragment of a Christian letter of recommendation addressed to a bishop. The writer asks the bishop to write to the presbyters (elders) of a village so that they will expect a certain man and receive him in peace. It dates to the first half of the 4th century AD.
The village name is only partly preserved (ending in -nneos). The presbyters are church elders, here probably the village clergy.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Christliches Empfehlungsschreiben). 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] [… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] αὐτοῦ θέλοντος ἡμῖν. γράφε οὖν, πάτερ ἐπίσκοπε, τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις κώμης[…]ννεος, ἵνα προσδοκᾶν αὐτὸν συναγόμενον ἐν εἰρήνῃ. διὰ ἐμὲ τοῦτο ποίησον, πάτερ ἐπίσκοπε. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι […]…[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] τῷ ἀγαπητῷ πατρὶ ἐπισκόπῳ[…]
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