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Coptic ostracon letter from a woman named Susanna sending warm greetings to the monks Frange and Moses and to her beloved son Psate, asking them to remember her in their holy prayers. It comes from the Theban region.
Frange was an 8th-century anchorite in western Thebes whose ostraca archive includes this letter. The closing lines are lost.
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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