o.frange.77
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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 140999
Letter from Frange asking for a skin to be brought urgently TM 140999Theben
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Ostracon letter from the monk Frange in the Theban region asking the recipient to do him a kindness, bring something and come to him. On the back he urges the addressee not to delay but to come the next day with the skin (or leather), which he needs very badly.
In English machine translation
[recto]
I, Frange, […] […]
greet […] beloved (?) […]
[…] please,
do the kindness and take
[…] and come
to me and you […]
[…]
[…]
[verso]
Do not wait,
then, […] come
to me tomorrow
with the skin, for
it is needed
very much,
very much.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite at Thebes who wrote many ostraca, so this letter probably dates to that period. The word shar means skin or hide, perhaps leather for his work.
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.