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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 219748
Letter from Frange to Abraham about a belt TM 219748Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from Frange to his brother Abraham, asking him to tell another brother to get a belt and bring it to him. It comes from the Theban area.
In English machine translation
[recto]
I, Frange, am writing to greet my beloved brother who is good, Abraham. Do me the kindness (agape) and tell the brother, the man of Pa[…] (?), that you take
[verso]
the belt (zone) which […] it, and bring it to me, so that I may go … to it […] him, so that I may find you in this matter. Farewell.
Frange was a monk living in a tomb in western Thebes in the 8th century, author of many ostraca. Several phrases on the verso are damaged and their translation 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.