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Letter from Pamoun to Apa Enoch about vineyard and farm affairs TM 942784Bawit (Hermopolites, Ägypten)VIII

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A fragmentary Coptic letter from Pamoun to his spiritual father Apa Enoch, probably from the monastic milieu of Bawit, AD 8th century. It mentions the place Loka, a vinedresser named Shinoute, wine or vineyard matters, the grain levy and the writer's labour with oxen, and asks to be remembered in prayer at the holy place.

In English machine translation

[recto] † † First, I greet and kiss the [footstool of the feet of your lordship], my father Apa Shere(?), your servant. Blessed am I that […] the strength (?) of the place of Loka after him, that is, the great request […] of God. Until the 10th of the month, 20 (?) days, they asked me […] light, and another one too, this one also; and wooden [jars of wine] […] nor anything great among the other resources. Further […] I am sending Psah (son of) Apollo out; you yourselves […] concerning Shinoute the vinedresser, before […] […] [… lines lost …] [verso] [… to my] honoured [father] Apa Enoch † from Pamoun, your son † […] men; know their business, so as to pay attention to the words of the men […] with you; but I do it, because it is his alone; and also, if […] two, to the clamp (?) of the vines; set my heart at rest, since […] days […] leave […] not knowing […] Loka […] remember us at the holy place, since a little […] the embole (grain levy) and the toil of my body, since I have driven the oxen, all of it upon them [… lines lost …]

Many readings are uncertain owing to the broken lines, so the translation of several phrases is tentative. The embole was a tax in grain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mitteilung des Pamoun an Apa Enoch). 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.koeln.aegypt.2.41

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

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