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Letter from Sarapammon to Bishop Senouthes about the presbyter Phoibammon TM 38224Apollonopolis (?)VI - VII

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A Christian letter from Sarapammon to Bishop Senouthes, reporting that a high-ranking comes has ordered him to ensure that the presbyter Phoibammon treats the comes' letter-carrier Anypsios justly. Sarapammon asks the bishop to admonish the presbyter first, warning that otherwise he will have to compel him. It dates to the 6th-7th century AD, possibly from Apollonopolis.

In English machine translation

[recto] † Your most magnificent son the comes wrote to me to make sure by all means that Phoibammon the presbyter observes what is just toward his letter-carrier, his nephew Anypsios. And since [...] to treat him with contempt, I beg your fatherly God-belovedness to admonish him [...] toward what is just. For if he does not obey even you, I am compelled to bring him, willing or unwilling, into line with what was written to me by the same aforementioned most magnificent man, my master. [verso] † To the most holy father, lord abba Senouthes, bishop, † Sarapammon, his son. †

A comes (count) was a high official title in late antiquity; 'son' and 'father' here are terms of respect toward the bishop, not family ties. The cause of the contempt is lost in a gap in line 2.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.grenf.2.93

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI - VII · Apollonopolis (?)

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