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Letter from Frange to Apa Konstantinos and Ananias about coming south TM 141056Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from Frange, a monk living near Thebes, to Apa Konstantinos and Ananias, who were further south. He asks them to send word so that he can travel south, saying he will come himself if they are not going north to the brothers' place.
In English machine translation
[The] wretched Frange writes to his God-loving, holy fathers (?) Apa Konstantinos and Ananias in the south:
Do me the kindness, my brothers, and send to me so that I may come south. If you are not going north to the place of the brothers, I will come south.
Farewell in the Lord. †
Frange was an 8th-century monk on the west bank of Thebes whose ostraca form a well-known archive; the text itself gives no date. The word 'fathers' is not written in the address and is supplied here only for sense.
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.