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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 220039
Letter from Frange to his beloved brother TM 220039Theben
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Beginning of a Coptic letter on an ostracon from the monk Frange to a beloved brother, opening with an invocation of Jesus Christ. Only the greeting and a few broken words, including the name Moses, survive. It comes from the Theban region.
In English machine translation
Jesus Christ.
I, Frange, am writing and greeting my beloved brother […]. Behold, I have […] my […] Moses […]
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Frange was an anchorite living in a tomb in western Thebes, known from many ostraca, generally dated to the 8th century AD. The text breaks off after the opening, and the name in the lacuna after "brother" is lost.
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.