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A Coptic letter on an ostracon from the hermit Frange, who lived in a tomb on the mountain of Djeme in western Thebes, to his friend Patermoute and his wife. Frange urgently asks Patermoute to drop everything, bring two masour-measures and come to him the next day on a pressing matter.
Frange calls himself 'the dead man who lives in the mountain', a monastic self-description for a hermit living in a tomb. The masour is a Coptic measure; the meaning of the following word (bēke, usually 'wages') and of some closing phrases 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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