o.frange.374
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Letter of greeting from Frange to his sister asking for prayers TM 219913Theben
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A short Coptic ostracon in which the hermit Frange greets a woman he calls his sister, praising her with pious epithets and asking her to pray for him. It comes from Thebes.
In English machine translation
I, Frange, am writing to greet his sister (?), the God-loving, man-loving, Christ-loving, of our Lord our King, our Saviour.
Pray for me.
Our King.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite living in Theban Tomb 29, and many of his ostraca survive. The epithets 'God-loving, man-loving, Christ-loving' are conventional honorifics, and the grammar linking them to 'our Lord our King, our Saviour' is loose in the original, so the rendering is approximate.
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.