p.louvre.bawit.51
[… ? lines lost …] […]…ⲡϩⲟⲓⲧⲉ ⲛⲁⲓ ⲛ[…] […]ϭⲟⲙ ⲙⲙⲟⲓ ⲧⲁⲉⲣ[…] […]ⲙⲛ ⲗⲁⲁⲩ ⲛτροφή […] […]ⲙⲡⲁϫⲟⲉⲓⲥ ⲛⲉⲓⲱⲧ […] […]ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ ϩⲛ ⲧϭⲟⲙ […]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 341854
Fragment of a letter to a monastic father TM 341854Bawit (Hermopolites)VII - VIII
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Fragment of a Coptic letter from the monastic settlement of Bawit, 7th-8th century AD. The writer mentions a garment, a lack of food, and addresses the recipient as 'my lord father', closing with a farewell formula.
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
[…] … the garment (?) for me […]
[…] strength (?) to me, that I may do (?) […]
[…] and no food […]
[…] my lord father […]
[…] farewell in the power […]
The Greek loanword trophē ('food, sustenance') appears in the Coptic text. 'My lord father' is a common address to a superior monk; the closing 'farewell in the power' probably continued 'of the Lord'.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.