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An ostracon letter from the monk Frange, living on the mountain of Djeme in western Thebes, to Jakob, his wife Koupre and their son Azarias, with blessings for the family. On the back he scolds Jakob for not visiting him and urges him to come at once, adding a message about sending a certain Pilatos through Jakob's brother Torsh.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in the Theban necropolis, known from a large archive of ostraca. The end of the verso is badly damaged, so the role of Pilatos is unclear.
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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