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Ostracon letter from the monk Frange, who lived on the mountain of Jeme (western Thebes), sending pious greetings to the priests Apa Iob and Apa Petros. He asks them to remember him in their prayers.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite at Theban Tomb 29 whose many ostraca survive; the sentence with 'I and my father, we give it' is awkwardly phrased and its exact construction 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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