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Catalog Record: michigan.apis.2005 [xml]

Title letter
Author unknown
Summary The text of the letter concerns a request for medical treatment for the deliverer. Only in lines 8-10, where a sizeable lacuna begins, does the sense become obscure.
Citations Warga R, Archiv 39, 47-48, 1993, Pl. 17
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 3549
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 22.1 x 14.5 cm.
Condition The sheet has been torn diagonally starting near the upper righthand corner, with the result that the ends of the four first lines are misaligned. A sizeable lacuna in lines 8-10 obscures the sense of these lines.
Lines 1-11
Recto/Verso Source of description: Recto
Hands The letter is nearly complete with all four margins complete. Recto; Written across the fibers; scribe rotated papyrus 90 degrees to accommodate the format of the text.
Origin unknown
More from unknown
Language Coptic
Date VIIth century A.D.
More from the period between 600 CE and 699 CE
Note (general) Location: Ann Arbor
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto; the Verso contains one illegible line
Note (related) -
Subjects -; Knee--Wounds and injuries--Egypt.; Knee--Diseases--Treatment--Egypt.; Christians--Egypt;vCorrespondence.; Papyrus; documentary
Associated Names Apa Kyrios
Images Recto thumbnail
Images Recto medium
Images Recto large
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

"I do obeisance to and greet the salvation of your beloved, god-loving fatherhood. After this I report to your fatherhood concerning the matter of this man who will give you my letter, that he is a brother of mine and a mishap has befallen his knee which he does not yet understand. Now, for God's sake do this on my account with God (i.e. with God's help). Give him some good medicine in the name of my lord the holy Apa Kyrios. And give it to him with all your heart and give your attention to him until I come up to nourish him and if he still wants to go away, give the medicine to him being satisfied and let him cure himself because he doesn't . . . the matter. I do obeisance to your fatherhood."