Christian Letter
Fragment from a Christian letter from Psenamounios bishop, perhaps a request for prayers
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34020
Letter from Bishop Psenamounios to a Christian household TM 34020unbekannt300 CE – 399 CE
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Fragment of a Christian letter from a bishop named Psenamounios to a correspondent and his whole household. He expresses joy at the chance to write and recalls with longing the love they showed, perhaps in connection with a tunic, and closes with a blessing. It dates to the 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…]
Psenamounios, bishop, […] greetings in the Lord God. […]
I rejoiced greatly at finding an opportunity, which I was granted, to send a letter to your nobility, and at the same time to all of your blessed household, small and great. I do not rest night and day, remembering the longing of your love which you showed toward […] tunic (?). May God and his Christ protect you and […]
[verso]
Deliver […]
The word read as 'tunic' (chito-) is incomplete, so what the recipients' love was shown toward is uncertain. The verso preserves only the beginning of the address, 'Deliver'.
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.11.301
[r] …[…] Ψεναμούνιος ἐπίσκοπος […] ἐν κυρίῳ θεῷ χαίρειν.[…] σφόδρα ἐχάρην εὐκαιρίαν εὑρὼν ἣν κατηξιώθην γράμματα πέμψαι πρὸς τὴν ὑμῶν καλοκἀγαθίαν καὶ ἅμα πάντας τοῦ εὐλογημένου ὑμῶν οἴκου μικροὺς καὶ μεγάλους. οὐκ ἀναπαύομαι νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας μνημονεύων τὸν πόθον τῆς ὑμετέρας ἀγ…