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Letter from Frange to his sister asking for wheat and cheeses TM 219864Theben
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A Coptic ostracon letter from Frange, a monk at Thebes, to his sister Tsie, asking her to send an oipe of wheat and two cheeses, mentioning bands (keiria) he has made. It closes with a request for her prayers.
In English machine translation
Jesus Christ.
I, Frange, am the one who writes and greets his beloved sister Tsie (?), the faithful one. Do me the kindness, by every means (?), of sending me one oipe of wheat, so that I may give it for the donkeys (?) for which I have woven (?) bands (keiria). Send them quickly, and send me two cheeses.
Pray for me.
Frange was an eighth-century monk of western Thebes known from many ostraca. Several phrases (the donkeys, the weaving, 'every means') are uncertain in reading and sense; keiria are woven bands or webbing.
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.