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A Coptic ostracon letter from the monk Frange and Moses to their brother Lazaros and his son Kolthe, also greeting Isaac. They ask Lazaros to have his sister Charisia grind an artaba of wheat and send it, with a basket of cakes and a little oil, by Charis, as they urgently need them. From the Theban region.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite at Thebes whose many ostraca survive. A thallion is a container or measure; the line 'your brother Lazaros' on the recto is oddly placed and may be part of the address.
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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