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Coptic ostracon letter from Frange, a monk living on the mountain of Djeme in western Thebes, to his friends Pebo and his wife. After pious greetings he urgently asks them to make him a small blanket and arranges for Pebo to bring or receive 30 copper coins in payment.
Lodix (Greek loan word) is a small blanket or coverlet, a product Frange often requests in his letters. Some phrases, especially the payment arrangement at the end, are uncertain in 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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