P.Mich.inv. 6858 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 6858

Processing Number

17411

Section/Side

Recto + Verso

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto (back) + Verso (front)

Connections

-

Material

Pap

Size

29 x 15 cm.

Items

1

Lines

1-25

Mounted

Yes

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

This medium-brown papyrus is regularly cut at all sides, and the text is complete. Kollesis in the middle. (TC)

Palaeographic Description

Hand similar to BMC no. 257; Stegemann, Taf. 8. Recto similar to Taf. 9.

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

VIth/VIIth century A.D.

Origin

unknown

Provenance

unknown

Acquisition

purchased by Prof. Worrell in Egypt in the spring of 1936

Language

Coptic

Genre

documentary

Author

Anuti

Type of Text/Title of Work

letter

Content

Letter from one Anuti to three ecclesiastics, reporting the succesful conclusion of a dispute regarding rent for a vineyard and a share in a house. The writer, in closing, asks for a blessing, written and wrapped around some object, unnamed, to be used with the water of their foot washings, for therapeutic purposes.

The rude scrawl, recto b, in a roughly contemporary hand, may be mathematical.

Subject Headings

Letter writing--Coptic--Egypt.

Christians--Egypt.

Monks--Egypt.

Business--Egypt.

Prayer--Christianity--Egypt.

Persons

Anuti;

Apa Makarios;

Apa Apollo;

Joseph;

Heray;

Papa Naro;

Anute;

Amata;

Paul, the son of Kouson;

Pamoute;

Geographica

-

Translation

"Anuti, the least sinner, it is who writes to his beloved lord and holy father, Apa Makarios, and Apa Apollo, and my brother Joseph, saying: I greet you with my whole heart. Be so good and think of me, for besides God you are my lord and father, you are my consolation, you are my consolation, you are every good that I possess. I greet your holy Paternity. Thanks to your prayers, blessing has come to me. I pay respect to your Paternity at all times. Be so good and think of me. As to the little letter which you wrote with such great kindness concerning Heray to Papa Naro and Anute concerning the little children of Amata: I went and I did it. While we were . . . . . . . . . ., I and Paul the son of Kouson. They sent me after them for us. They sent to them their dues (?) in the vineyard and their share in the house. They came to an agreement with them. Be so good to your son and give a little water of the feet of holy men and a little blessing of our father and a little . . . . . . in your blessing. Give them to Pamoute and he will bring tehm to me and they will be a healing to me. Verily I hang upon nothing of this world except your blessing. Salvation in the Lord!"

(Recto a): "Give it to my Lord Father Apa Makare. From Anuti."

Cataloging

Cataloger

TC

Year Begin

500

Year End

699

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

7760 x 4697

File Size

5 MB

Record

17411

Link to this Item

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