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Letter (frag.) to Members of a Priestly Synod (before 46 CE) Tebtynis - Fayum region


Tebtynis (Fayum region, Egypt — Pleiades map), before 46 CE
GRA III 215 = PLips II 131 = BL XII 99 = Papyri.info TM 44414 = AGRW ID# 31211
Copenhagen Inventory info: 1859


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Papyrus (12.2 x 7.3 cm). Now in Leipzig, Universität (inv. FF 7).

To Petesouchos son of Marreios, president (prostatēs) of the synod (synodos) of priests, through Psenkebkios son of Psoiphis, superintendent (epistatēs), and to the rest of the members (synoditai), from Sigeris son of Paopis and Pnebtynis son of Psoiphis, priests of the same synod. Since our lord Seknebtynis, the great god, has ordered us . . . associations (synodoi) and…

Translation by: Kloppenborg



[Π]ε̣[τ]ε̣[σ]ούχωι Μαρρείους | [προσ]τάτῃ συνόδου ἱερέων | [διὰ Ψε]ν̣κήβκιος τοῦ Ψοίφιος | [ἐπιστ]άτου καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς || [συνοδ]ίταις | [παρ]ὰ̣ Σιγὴριος τοῦ Παώπιο[ς] | [καὶ Πν]εβτύνιο(ς) τοῦ Ψοίφιο̣ς̣ | [ἱερέ]ω̣ν̣ τῆς αὐτῆς συνόδ[ο]υ̣. | [ἐπεὶ ὁ] κ̣ύριος̣ ἡμῶν Σεκνεβτῦν̣[ις] || [ὁ θεὸς μέγας] ἔ̣κρινεν ὑμεῖν̣ | [- ca.10 -]ς̣ συνόδους̣ καὶ με̣[ ̣] | [- ca.15 -]μης | [- ca.15 -]ο̣υ̣ ̣ | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --.

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