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A Coptic letter on an ostracon from the Theban area in which the monk Frange and Moses greet David and Meseiane and their children. They ask Meseiane to send a little oil back with Kyrikos, as it is urgently needed.
Frange was an 8th-century monk-scribe living in a tomb in western Thebes; his ostraca survive in large numbers. The last lines on the verso are difficult and their rendering is tentative.
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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