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A short Coptic letter on an ostracon from the monk Frange to Apa Ananias, offering to do whatever he needs and asking him, if he agrees, to send brother Enoch so that Frange can hand over some vessels to be carried on. It comes from Thebes.
Frange was an anchorite in western Thebes in the 8th century AD whose many ostraca survive. Several words (the container, the phrase about the recipient) are uncertain in meaning.
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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