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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 219939
Letter from Frange to the deacon Apa Isaak and his wife TM 219939Theben
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Opening of a Coptic letter on an ostracon from Frange, a monk of the Theban area, greeting the deacon Apa Isaak and his wife Sousanna. The greeting formula appears twice, and the rest of the text is broken.
In English machine translation
I, Frange, am writing and greeting my beloved brothers who love God, Apa Isaak the deacon and his wife Sou[sanna] […]
[…] Frange, writing and greeting
[my] beloved brothers who love God
[…] (?)hmou the man
[…] … him (?) to me
[…] … lord (?) of men
[…]te
[… ? lines lost …]
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes whose many ostraca survive. The wife's name Sousanna is a restoration from the first letters.
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.