Christian Letter
Letter to a woman about some sort of expensive garment delivered by a monk
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34018
Christian letter to a sister about a garment brought by a monk TM 34018unbekannt300 CE – 399 CE
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A fragmentary Christian letter of the 4th century AD addressed to a woman called 'lady and sister'. The writer opens with a prayer for her health and reports that a monk brought a bordered garment she had written about, which the writer has now sent on to her.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To my lady and most honoured sister
[…] (?)
Before all else I pray to the all-merciful God for your health, for this is to me worth more than anything. As
you wrote to me about the bordered garment, the monk brought it to me and
I have sent it to you concerning […]
many […]
[verso]
To my lady sister […]
The word paragaudion is a garment with woven or embroidered borders, probably a costly item; the second line of the address is garbled and untranslatable.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Christian 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.
p.col.11.299
[r] τῇ δεσποίνῃ μου καὶ τιμιωτάτῃ ἀδελφῇ τημηπ…ρικισμανλ… πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαι τῷ πανελεήμονι θεῷ περὶ τῆς ὑγιείας σοῦ· τοῦτο γὰρ ἀντὶ παντός μοι ἐστίν. καθὼς δὲ γεγράφηκας μοι περὶ τοῦ παραγαυτίου, ἤνεγκέν μοι τοῦτο ὁ μοναχὸς καὶ τοῦτό σοι ἀπέστειλα περὶ …[…] πολλὰ η[…]…[…]…[……