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A Coptic ostracon letter from the monk Frange to the priest Papa, also greeting his brother Petros. Frange asks Papa to fill a jar of oil and supply 2 maje of wheat, to be brought by Kyrikos when he comes to the mountain of Jeme. It comes from the Theban region.
The maje is a Coptic dry measure; the sense of ⲛⲥⲟⲩⲟ ⲛϩⲱⲣϫ (wheat of a particular kind or for grinding) is uncertain. Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes, but no date is given in the records.
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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