o.frange.122
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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 141044
Letter from Frange to his brother Enoch asking him to come TM 141044Theben
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A short Coptic ostracon letter in which the anchorite Frange, calling himself a sinner, greets his beloved brother Enoch and asks him to come to him urgently about a matter. It comes from Thebes.
In English machine translation
I,
Frange,
the sinner,
am writing and greeting
my beloved brother
Enoch. (With the) blessing,
come to me
so that I may find you
in this matter;
for it is a necessity.
Frange was a monk living in a tomb in western Thebes in the 8th century, known from a large dossier of ostraca. The last lines are difficult; 'mmon' may mean 'truly' or 'for', and the sense of 'find you in this matter' 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.