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Letter from Frange to his sister Tsie TM 219868Theben

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A Coptic ostracon letter from the monk Frange to a woman named Tsie, whom he praises as a pious woman like the Virgin Mary. He greets her daughter, mentions items sent and exchanged for oil, and asks her kindly to help with work for an old man he calls his father. It comes from Thebes.

In English machine translation

I, Frange, am the one who writes, greeting his beloved sister Tsie, the true woman who has found grace before God, like my mother Mary, the mother of our Lord. I greet also your daughter Saneth (?). Look, [the] hook (?) I have sent to you, and the basket (?) which Anaste gave to her. Otherwise, she gave it to me for the oil; I have brought it out. Do the kindness and take the trouble at every time when they will work [...] my father, the old man, and do the charity, and go and do work for them. Farewell in the Lord.

Frange was an 8th-century anchorite living in Theban Tomb 29, whose many ostraca survive; 'sister' and 'father' are likely spiritual terms. Several words (hook, basket) are 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.

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