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A Coptic ostracon letter from Frange, a monk at Thebes, to a woman named Tsie whom he calls his God-loving mother. He asks her help regarding a sick brother connected with the monk Petros and with David, and asks that a jar of oil be sent through David.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes, known from a large ostraca archive. Several phrases in the middle of the letter, including the kinds of illness named, are obscure and the translation there is tentative.
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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