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ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ϥⲣⲁⲛⲅⲉ ⲁⲛ ϩⲁ ⲑⲉ μέν ⲛϩⲱⲃ ⲛⲓⲙ ⲉⲉⲓⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲉⲓϣⲓⲛⲉ ⲉⲛⲁⲙⲉⲣⲁⲧⲉ ⲛⲥⲛⲏⲩ ⲙⲙⲁⲓⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲙⲙⲁⲓⲣⲱⲙⲉ ⲙⲙⲁⲓⲡⲉⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ ⲓⲏⲥⲟⲩⲥ ⲡⲉⲛϫⲟⲉⲓⲥ ⲡⲉⲛσωτήρ ⲡⲉⲛⲣⲣⲟ ⲡⲉⲛⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 219914
Opening greeting of a letter from Frange to his brothers TM 219914Theben
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Opening of a Coptic letter on an ostracon from Frange, the monk known from the Theban hermitages, greeting his beloved brothers with a string of pious epithets. Only the address and greeting survive, or the scribe stopped there.
In English machine translation
I, Frange, write before everything, greeting my beloved brothers, God-loving, man-loving, Christ-loving, (in) Jesus our Lord, our Saviour, our King, our God.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in Western Thebes whose many ostraca survive. The text may be a draft or exercise of a letter opening, since no body follows the greeting.
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.