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Request from Frange to the great men for prayers for forgiveness TM 141118Theben
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A short Coptic ostracon in which the monk Frange writes to all the great (senior) men of a place, asking them for love's sake to pray for him so that God may forgive him. It comes from the Theban region.
In English machine translation
† I, Frange, am writing to all the great men who are in […], that you pray for me out of love, so that God may forgive me.
Frange was an anchorite living in a tomb in western Thebes, known from many ostraca of the 8th century AD. The restoration of the verb 'pray' rests on the usual formula of such requests.
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.