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A Coptic ostracon letter from Frange, a monk at Thebes, to his brothers Papas, Charisie and her children, about a cloth tunic requested for a little girl, which he obtained at the cost of a keration. He greets them and their household in the Lord.
Frange was an 8th-century monk-weaver in western Thebes; the final clause about the cloth is difficult and its rendering is tentative. A keration was a small gold-based money unit (1/24 of a solidus).
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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