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Widow's appeal to a superior about wheat owed to her late husband TM 86833Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west)1. Hälfte VII

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Letter from a widow to a monastic or church superior asking for help recovering wheat that her late husband Pahai had lent, before the Persian invasion, to the priest Apa Shenetom and Sakau son of Jui. The debtors' heirs have paid nothing, and after a legal dispute each was to put his share in writing. It comes from western Thebes in the early 7th century.

In English machine translation

† […] your [fatherhood?] […] and I greet the footprint of the feet of your God-loving fatherhood, my lord father. I am the servant (fem.), the widow who is the old woman of the blessed Petros, the boatman (?), at the cistern (?) of the cattle (?). I inform your fatherhood that it is you whom God has appointed to seek after the affairs of the poor. For before the Persians came south, the blessed Pahai, my husband, gave some (loans of?) wheat to the priest Apa Shenetom and Sakau son of Jui. They died in the turmoil (?), and they have not given me anything of theirs until now. And behold, I have made many attempts with them, saying, 'Write to me concerning them until the place of rest, and give me a little each year.' They went to court with one another, and it was decided that each one should write for his share. Behold, the […] [… lines lost …]

The 'Persians' are the Sasanian forces who occupied Egypt c. AD 619-629, giving a useful date reference. Several phrases (the description of Petros, 'turmoil', 'place of rest') are uncertain readings and the translation there is tentative.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter). 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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