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Ostracon letter written by a woman to the monk Frange, greeting him in the Lord. She reports that items he had mentioned have reached her, offers to load a camel with wheat for him if someone comes about it, and says she has sent an offering through Papnoute. From the Theban region.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes whose correspondence survives on ostraca. Several words (the sender's name, 'wax', 'kolbyon') are uncertain in reading or meaning, and the numbers in line 6-7 are 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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