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Letter from Theodoros to Apa Frange asking for prayers against disease TM 219885Theben
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A Coptic ostracon letter from Theodoros to the monk Apa Frange, asking him to pray that God have mercy on him, his mother and his little brothers and protect them from spreading diseases. He also asks Frange not to be angry with him. It comes from Thebes.
In English machine translation
[recto]
I, Theodoros, am writing and greeting my beloved lord father Apa Frange. Be so kind as to pray for me, that God may have mercy on me and on
my mother
[verso]
and my little brothers, that God may protect us from the diseases that are spreading.
And be so kind, do not be angry with me (?) […]
My mother
said to the man (?)
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite living in a tomb in western Thebes, whose correspondence survives on many ostraca. The last lines are broken and their sense 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.