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A Coptic ostracon letter from the monk Frange to Phoibammon, reproaching him for failing to send good wheat promised in return for goods Frange gave him when Phoibammon visited the mountain of Jeme with his son. Frange asks him to hand the wheat to his father Victor, who brings the ostracon.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes; the exact sense of several phrases (the goods given, "face of wheat") is uncertain, and the word read as wool may be a textile or similar commodity. The "potsherd" (tebllje) is probably the ostracon itself, serving as a token.
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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