p.louvre.bawit.57
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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 341860
Fragment of a letter with greetings to a brother TM 341860Bawit (Hermopolites)VII - VIII
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A small fragment of a Coptic letter from the monastery of Bawit in the Hermopolite region, dating to the 7th or 8th century AD. Only the opening greeting to an honoured brother and a mention of a house survive.
In English machine translation
[…] I greet your [brotherliness/fatherliness (?)] […] brother, the honoured one […]
[…] […] into the house […]
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The word after "your" begins with the abstract prefix mnt-, typical of honorific forms of address such as "your brotherliness" or "your fatherliness"; which title was used 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.