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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 220042
Letter from Frange to his brother Iohannes and his sister TM 220042Theben
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Coptic ostracon letter from Frange, writing to greet his brother Iohannes and Iohannes's sister. The surviving text reminds them of something that happened over some years and makes a request or complaint, but the rest is lost. It comes from the Theban area.
In English machine translation
I,
Frange,
am writing to greet
my brother Iohannes [and]
his sister Tofoum (?) […]
You know that […]
years since you […]
Keme (Egypt) as my strength […]
to you. Now […]
you, that not […]
[…] (?) […]
you […]
…[…]
[… lines lost …]
Frange was a monk living in a hermitage in western Thebes and left many ostraca of this kind. The reading of the sister's name and of several broken line ends 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.