o.frange.278
ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ⲧⲉⲓⲁⲧϣⲁⲩ ⲧⲥⲓⲉ ⲉⲓⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲉⲓϣⲓⲛⲉ ⲉⲡⲁⲙⲉⲣⲓⲧ ⲛⲥⲟⲛ ϥⲣⲁⲅⲅⲉ […] ⲛⲛⲉⲥⲛⲏⲩ ⲧⲏⲣⲟⲩ […] ϯϣⲓⲛⲉ ⲉⲣⲟⲕ ⲉⲙⲁⲧⲉ […] ⲁⲣⲓ ⲧἀγάπη ⲉϣⲱⲡⲉ […] ϩⲟⲩⲛ ⲅⲛⲣ ⲡⲧⲱ…[…] ⲉϥⲥⲏϩ ⲛⲧⲉϩⲉ ϩⲛ[…] ⲛⲧⲉⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ …[…]ⲡ ⲛⲁⲙⲉ ϥⲣⲁⲅⲅⲉ […] ⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ […] […]ⲡϭ…ⲟ…[…]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 219818
Letter from Tsie to Frange asking a favour TM 219818Theben
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A fragmentary Coptic letter on an ostracon from Thebes, written by a woman named Tsie to the monk Frange, whom she calls her beloved brother. She sends greetings, also to all the brothers, and asks him to do her a kindness, but the details of the request are lost.
In English machine translation
I, [the humble (?)] Tsie, am writing, [greeting my] beloved brother Fr[ange] […]
all the brothers […]
I greet you very [much] […]
Do the kindness, if […]
[…] in, you do the (?) […]
written in the manner in […]
of God […] the true (?) Frange […]
God […]
[…]
Frange was an 8th-century monk living in a tomb in western Thebes, whose correspondence survives on many ostraca. The restoration of the sender's self-description and the addressee's name is the editor's.
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.