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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 141027
Letter from Frange to his sister Tsible asking for baked bread TM 141027Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from Frange, a monk known from the Theban region, to his sister Tsible, asking her kindly to bake some bread and send it to him quickly. On the back he adds greetings to his brother Jacob and to her young son Komes.
In English machine translation
[recto]
It is I, Frange, who writes greeting my beloved sister Tsible (?). Do me the kindness of baking a ... of kouch-bread (?) and send it to me quickly.
Farewell in the Lord.
[verso]
I greet again my brother Jacob and your little son Komes.
Farewell in the Lord.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes whose letters on ostraca survive in large numbers. The words for the item to be baked (oushoft n-kouch) are obscure and the rendering 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.