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Letter from Frange to Phoibammon urging him to come quickly TM 141053Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from the monk Frange to his brother Phoibammon, urging him to drop everything and come to him at once. It comes from the Theban area.
In English machine translation
[recto]
I, Frange, the most humble, write to greet my beloved lord brother, who is dear to me, the God-loving Phoibammon. Farewell in the Lord.
[verso]
Do the kindness and leave everything behind you and come in to me quickly, quickly, at once, at once, so that I may find you. Come, quickly, quickly.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes whose ostraca form a large archive. The phrase rendered 'at once' (ⲛⲥⲁⲩⲛⲉ) literally means 'at the hour'.
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.