Greek and Coptic Papyri from the Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit in the Louvre
No ancient title preserved; modern edition title: Papyrus grecs et coptes de Baouît conservés au Musée du Louvre (P. Louvre Bawit 1-83)
· Various — monks and dependants of the monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit
· 7th–8th century (dates given in the volume's summary of the find)
· other
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
The only edition is French: S. J. Clackson, Papyrus grecs et coptes de Baouît conservés au Musée du Louvre (IFAO, Bibliothèque d'études coptes 22, 2014). The HOLLIS record gives the language as 'fre' and summarises the contents as Greek and Coptic administrative and private documents, accounts and 'de nombreuses lettres' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Papyrus%20grecs%20et%20coptes%20de%20Baouit&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation located: HOLLIS 'Bawit papyri English translation' returns 2 records, neither a translation of the corpus (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bawit%20papyri%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 OpenLibrary 'baouit papyrus' returns 3 items, all French (https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=baouit+papyrus).
83 numbered papyri (73 fragments described in the summary), Greek and Coptic; the appendix tabulates all Bawit papyri and ostraca published to date, over 700 documents. Mostly modest pieces, but together they reconstruct the archives of one of the largest Egyptian monasteries. Only part of the Bawit archive is edited at all, so the untranslated share is larger than this volume alone.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Electronic text
No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).
Scanned witnesses
Scan search: no scan located. No scan of the edition or of the papyri themselves could be verified. (1) Internet Archive: the only Bawit material is the IFAO excavation-report series — MIFAO 12 et 13 (Clédat 1904), MIFAO 39 (Clédat 1904), MIFAO 59.1/59.2 (Maspero 1931) — the excavation reports, not the papyrus edition; they are public-domain-era scans (1904-1931 imprints, no licence on the items) and do not carry P. Louvre Bawit 1-83. (2) BnF catalogue record for the edition verified: ark:/12148/cb438712711, 'Papyrus grecs et coptes de Baouît : conservés au Musée du Louvre : P. Louvre Bawit 1-83 / Sarah J. Clackson † Alain Delattre, 2014' (SRU HTTP 200), but it is not digitised and Gallica returns HTTP 403 from this host. (3) Louvre collections database (collections.louvre.fr), where the papyri are held and photographed, refused both search URLs with HTTP 429 and a WAF 'I am not a robot' interstitial on every attempt (incl. a 20 s backoff), so no object record or image could be verified — do not cite an inventory number from this run. (4) DigiVatLib and HMML are irrelevant/blocked respectively. The edition is an IFAO 2014 in-copyright monograph, so even a found copy would be restricted; the realistic open route is the museum's own object photography, which is currently bot-walled.
Cite: Tergwame, “Greek and Coptic Papyri from the Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit in the Louvre”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-bawit-louvre