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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 141004
Letter from Frange to Johannes about a jar of oil TM 141004Theben
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Fragmentary Coptic ostracon letter from the monk Frange to a man named Johannes, apparently concerning an instruction and asking that a jar of oil be sent to someone. It comes from the Theban area.
In English machine translation
I, Frange,
am writing to Johannes (?):
You have […]
the commandment that you gave (?) […]
Send […] a jar of oil to him
[…] his […]
[…]
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes whose many ostraca survive. Several words are illegible, so the translation of lines 3 and 4 is uncertain.
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.