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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 141003
Letter from Frange to his brother Samuel asking him to bring oil TM 141003Theben
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Short private letter on an ostracon from Frange, a monk at Thebes, to his beloved brother Samuel, asking him to drop everything, bring a little oil and come. The end is damaged.
In English machine translation
[recto]
I,
Frange,
am writing and greeting my beloved brother,
the good one,
Samuel.
Farewell (?).
[verso]
Please, leave everything
aside and take a little oil and come
[…]
[…]
Frange was an anchorite of the early 8th century AD in western Thebes, known from a large dossier of ostraca. The word ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ on the recto is a farewell formula oddly placed before the body of the letter.
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.