A tax demand note of the early Arab period, in which the official Zoubeeir son of Ziada informs Menas, Baouch son of Menas and others of the village or estate of Leukogeion that their share of the tax assessment for the first indiction is 6 1/2 solidi. It was written on 31 August 719 in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
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† With God. Zoubeeir son of Ziada to you, Menas, Baouch son of Menas, … of Leukogeion (?).
There has fallen to you (as your share) for the diagramma (tax assessment) of the first indiction: 6 1/2 counted solidi. Written in the month Thoth, day 2, of the first indiction.
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Diagraphon (diagramma) is the assessed tax quota; 'counted solidi' (arithmia nomismatia) are gold coins reckoned by number rather than weight. Zoubeeir son of Ziada is an Arab official writing in Greek.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as einer). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.