Christian Letter
Christian letter about things sent by the writer
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34019
Christian letter about fish sauce, a mantle and bread sent through Eutychia TM 34019unbekannt300 CE – 399 CE
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A fragmentary Christian letter from a man to his 'brother', reporting good health and thanks to God. On the back he lists items sent through a woman named Eutychia: a jar of fish sauce, a white mantle and a basket of twenty pairs of bread rolls, and encourages the recipient in a dispute with his landowner.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To my lord brother […]
[…], son of […], greetings.
[…] we pray for your friendship. I want you to know that up to this point we are in good health […]
[…] to come […]
[…] of you, I accomplished (?) […]
[…] and […]
[…] but we give thanks to God for all things […]
for he is the one who demands (?) […]
[…] to me […]
that 'give me […]'
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and the […]
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[verso]
I sent you through Eutychia a knidion-jar of fish sauce holding nine phratides (?), and the white mantle (maphorion), and a basket of bread rolls holding twenty pairs.
So just as I suffer no loss but have prevailed, you too prevail with your landowner.
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[…] nor […]
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The knidion was a type of jar; 'phratis' is an obscure measure or vessel term. The 'geouchos' is a landowner, probably the recipient's landlord or employer.
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.11.300
[r] κύρι… μου ἀδελφ…[…] κυριο…ου υἱός …λ…νος χαίρειν. …πε… εὐχόμεθα περὶ τῆς ὑμῶν φιλίας. εἰδέναι ὑμᾶς θέλω ὅτι μέχρι τούτου ὁλοκληροῦμεν[…] μι…ηστουμαι ἐλθεῖν …[…] ελεσα σοῦ ἐξέπλεξα …[…] λον αναστηκαι καὶ ταπε[…] νιδος ἀλλὰ εὐχαριστοῦμεν τῷ θεῷ πάντα τὰ …φ…αν…[…] αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐστὶ…