Letter to the pagarch Papas about sureties from Eleutherios and a bath-attendant TM 39102unbekannt

Fragmentary letter, perhaps from a bishop, to the pagarch Papas concerning a legal affair in which a man, his wife and his son-in-law were wronged and virgins violated by Eleutherios. The writer asks Papas to take sureties from Eleutherios pending an inquiry and to send a bath-attendant named Philotheos within five days.

In English machine translation

Papas was pagarch of Apollonopolis Ano in the later 7th century AD; the sender is tentatively identified as a bishop. 'Kyros' here is the honorific 'lord', not a personal name; the word 'eleuthera' (literally 'free woman') is used for 'wife'.

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