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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 141028
Letter from Frange to Jacob asking for a measure of salt TM 141028Theben
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A short letter on an ostracon from Frange, a monk living near Thebes, to his brother Jacob, asking him to supply a measure of salt and to send word of its price. The answer is to come back with the person carrying the ostracon.
In English machine translation
I, Frange, am writing and greeting his beloved brother Jacob. Be so kind as to give one maaje-measure of salt, for I have none, and send me the reply about how much it costs (?). Send it to me by means of the one who will bring you the ostracon.
Farewell in the Lord.
God will bless you, my brother.
A maaje is a Coptic dry measure with no exact English equivalent. Frange was an anchorite of the early 8th century in western Thebes, known from a large group of his ostraca.
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.