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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from Frange, a monk living near Thebes, to his brother Apa Biktor and his wife. He urges Biktor to drop everything, bring a tremissis (a gold coin) and a tanned skin, come quickly from the next day on, and collect a book.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite and copyist in western Thebes, so the book and the skin probably relate to book production. The tremissis was a gold coin worth one third of a solidus, and the closing instruction is ambiguous about who is to give what to whom.
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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