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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 219747
Letter from Frange and Moses to Andreas asking for a donkey TM 219747Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from Frange and Moses to their brother Andreas and his household. Frange asks Andreas, as a great act of charity, to take the trouble to provide a donkey and put his son Moses on it. It comes from the Theban region.
In English machine translation
[recto]
It is I, Frange, and Moses, who write greeting our beloved brother Andreas and all his people.
Farewell in the Lord.
Our beloved good (?) brother.
The Holy Trinity.
[verso]
Do the great charity, Andreas, and take the trouble of a donkey, and load my son Moses on it.
Frange was a monk living in a tomb at Thebes, known from a large archive of ostraca. The phrase translated "take the trouble of a donkey" may also mean "take care of a donkey" for Moses's journey; "my son" is probably a spiritual rather than a literal term.
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.