o.frange.365
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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 219904
Fragment of a letter mentioning Frange, Johannes and an illness TM 219904Theben
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Fragmentary Coptic ostracon letter from the Theban area, apparently connected with the monk Frange. It mentions a request for a kindness, a Johannes, the writer's illness, and possibly a model or pattern (typos).
In English machine translation
[...]
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Frange and [...]
son, do the kindness [...]
Johannes. God [...]
I will (?) [...] the model (?) [...]
to you another time. Johannes (?) [...]
that my illness [...]
fought with me [...] word(s). I wished to [...]
[...] word [...]
[...]
[...]
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite of western Thebes whose ostraca form this archive. The Greek loanword typos may mean a model, pattern or document; its sense here 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.