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Title letter
Author unknown
Summary fragment of a letter about certain camels
Citations Worrell WH, PMich Coptic III, 11, 1942
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 4557
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 29 x 8.5 cm.
Condition Regularly cut at the bottom; at least four vertical folds have remained. (TC)
Lines 1-9
Recto/Verso Source of description: recto
Hands Hand resembles Stegemann, Taf. 9 col. 4, especially BM Papyrus. No. 448 of ca. 620 A.D. Words and syllables separated by apostrophes. The text is written vertically to the fibers.
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; verso is blank
Note (related) -
Subjects Egypt; Letter writing, Coptic--Egypt.; Christians--Egypt.; Camels--Egypt.; Peasantry--Egypt.; Monasteries--Coptic--Egypt.; Priests--Egypt.; Papyrus; documentary
Associated Names Jakob
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License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

" ...................................................................................... When the peasants found you in the monastery with the priest Jakob, you (?) said to them: "Our father will send after the camels and fetch them (?)." Now behold the peasants have come north and have said to the people of the village: "Remove (?) the camels south." Behold the people of the village have said to us: "If the camels eat (?) in our field, and we flee to the place of all the . . . . . . . . . of Egypt, then you have them taken south." But now, if it is the idea to take them south, then send the man for us by the 1st of Tobe. Salvation in the Lord!"