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Letter from Frange to Apa Isaak asking him to come out TM 141065Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from Frange, a monk of the Theban region, to his brother Apa Isaak, greeting him and his household and asking him to come out to meet him.
In English machine translation
[recto]
I, Frange, the most humble, write greeting my beloved lord, the good brother Apa Isaak.
I greet also every person in your house, in the Lord.
Greetings.
[verso]
Please, try (?) to come out; if I do not find you, I have [...] (?) you.
Frange was an anchorite at Thebes, generally dated to the 8th century AD. The final lines on the verso are terse and their exact sense 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.