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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from Frange, a monk living on the mountain of Jeme in western Thebes, sending greetings to the deacon Apa Isaak and his brother Seth. It closes with greetings to a woman called his mother and her children.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in the Theban necropolis whose many ostraca survive; the 'mountain of Jeme' is the desert hillside of western Thebes. The reading of the mother's name Aunak 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.
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