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Letter from Frange and Moyses warning a brother against Phoibammon TM 141081Theben

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A Coptic letter on an ostracon from Theban monks Frange and Moyses to a 'brother', rebuking him for associating with a man named Phoibammon, called shameless because of the affair concerning his wife. They warn him that many people are scandalized, and tell him not to visit again until he sends a blanket (lodix) they had discussed.

In English machine translation

We are amazed, we, Frange and Moyses, we are astonished, because we wrote, swearing by Phoibammon the shameless one, that we would send you the blanket (?) before we bound ourselves (?) to Easter (?); it has been spread abroad (?). You yourself know, my brother, that this shameless one has joined with his wife. Because of you I made every arrangement, I made peace between you. But now God knows that I am not joining in his peace with you and with him, while I live, on account of the matter of his wife. And if you listen to me and believe me, my brother, there are many people scandalized at you, because you go in to Phoibammon the shameless one. See, I have written, I have borne witness to you: go and […] the shameless one, lest some trouble befall you. I have borne witness to you. Until you send the blanket (?) to me, do not come to me again ever, to my place; rather stay where you are, do not come to me again.

Frange was an 8th-century monk and ostracon writer in western Thebes. The Greek loanword lodix (a blanket or coverlet) and several phrases in the opening lines are uncertain in meaning.

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.

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