p.louvre.bawit.55
[r] […]… ⲁⲓⲣⲁϣⲉ ⲉϫⲙ ⲡⲉⲕἀσπασμός […] […]ⲉ ⲛⲧⲁⲕⲧⲛⲟⲟⲩϥ ⲛⲁⲓ ϫⲉ …[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] […]…ⲱⲧ ⲙⲙⲉⲣⲓⲧ ⲛⲥⲟⲛ ⲉⲧⲧ…[…]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 341858
Fragment of a letter acknowledging a greeting TM 341858Bawit (Hermopolites)VII - VIII
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Fragment of a Coptic letter in which the writer says he rejoiced at a greeting the addressee had sent him. The address on the back mentions a beloved brother. It comes from the monastery of Bawit in the Hermopolite region and dates to the 7th or 8th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] I rejoiced at your greeting […]
[…] which you sent me, that […]
[… ? lines lost …]
[verso]
[…] … beloved brother who […]
The word on the verso ending in -ōt may belong to a form of address such as "father" (eiōt), but its beginning is lost.
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.