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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 219803
Letter from Teiatshau to Frange asking for his prayers TM 219803Theben
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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from a woman calling herself Teiatshau to Frange, a monk she addresses as her brother. She greets him humbly, says she is looking to him for help, and asks him to pray for her.
In English machine translation
I, Teiatshau, the sister (?), who writes greeting my brother Frange in the Lord.
I greet you very much in the Spirit (?). I am a worthless person, but God knows that I look to you, in case perhaps I might come in and grace (?) reach me.
Do the kindness, pray for me.
Frange was an 8th-century monk living in a tomb in western Thebes, whose correspondence survives on many ostraca. The sender's name looks like a self-description ("the worthless one"), and several words in the middle of the letter are hard to interpret, so their rendering 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.