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A Coptic ostracon letter from the monk Frange and Moses to their brother Azarias and his son. Frange asks Azarias to go with Elias, read a tablet to Andreas and others, and have them hand over a hide so Elias can bring it quickly for a book Frange wrote. From Thebes.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes who copied books; the hide was presumably needed for binding or writing material. Several words (Sabine, Bahlele, the last line, the fishing phrase) are uncertain in reading and sense.
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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