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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 140987
Letter of Frange requesting wheat and cheeses TM 140987Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon written by the monk Frange in his own hand, asking the recipient to send eight measures of wheat and some cheeses through the bearer. It comes from the Theban region and belongs to the well-known archive of the anchorite Frange.
In English machine translation
Jesus Christ
I, Frange, writing with his (own) hand:
The one who is good (?), the ostracon (?)...
Send me 8 mmaje of wheat through him, and some cheeses.
Otherwise my heart is very, very sick.
Farewell in the Lord.
The fourth and fifth lines (petnan teblje nē jooу) are obscure and the translation of them is uncertain. The mmaje is a Coptic dry measure of grain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.