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Letter from Frange to Enoch and family about a visit while he was ill TM 220048Theben

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Opening of a Coptic letter on an ostracon from the monk Frange, greeting Enoch, a woman named Tshemshilou (?) and her children. It begins to recount how Enoch visited and found Frange sick, but breaks off. It comes from the Theban area.

In English machine translation

I, Frange, this most humble one, write greeting Enoch and Tshemshilou (?) and her children. Since Enoch came in and found me ill, he said to me, "I will […]" …

Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes whose many ostraca survive. The name Tshemshilou is uncertain in reading and form.

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.

o.frange.511

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Theben

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Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata · Fouilles belges dans la nécropole thébaine, inv. 291857 + 291923 · Theben