p.louvre.bawit.38
[r] † ⲉⲓⲥ ⲧ…ⲉⲓ…ⲥ[…] ⲛⲥⲟⲟⲩⲧⲛ ⲉϣⲁϥⲃⲱⲕ ⲉⲃⲁⲃⲩⲗⲱⲛ […] ⲧⲓἀσπάζομαι …ⲉ…ϩ…ⲥ[…] [v] † […] ϩⲓⲧⲛ † ⲍⲁⲭⲁⲣⲓⲁⲥ. †
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 341844
Fragmentary letter (order) from Zacharias mentioning travel to Babylon TM 341844Bawit (Hermopolites)VIII
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Fragmentary Coptic letter, apparently an order, from the monastery of Bawit in the Hermopolite nome, sent by a certain Zacharias. It mentions someone going to Babylon (Old Cairo) and contains a greeting. It dates to the 8th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† Behold […]
[…] straight (?), who goes to Babylon […]
I greet […]
[verso]
†
[…] from † Zacharias. †
Babylon here is the fortress-town at Old Cairo, not Mesopotamian Babylon. The word read as 'straight' (ⲛⲥⲟⲟⲩⲧⲛ) is uncertain in context.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre (ordre)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.