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Bilingual Arabic-Coptic poll-tax demand to John son of Isidore of the monastery of Apa Apollo TM 118282unbekanntDez. 753

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A bilingual Arabic and Coptic tax demand (entagion) issued in December 753 by an agent of the emir Abd al-Malik ibn Yazid for Upper Ishmun (Hermopolis) to John son of Isidore of the monastery of Apa Apollo. It assesses 2 dinars (solidi) of poll-tax for the year 136 AH, payable in six instalments to the village official, who must issue a sealed receipt.

In English machine translation

[…] paid, indiction […] In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. This is a document from Hisham ibn Ziyad (?), agent of the emir Abd al-Malik ibn Yazid over Upper Ishmun, to Yuhannis son of Isidore, of the people of the monastery of Abu Apollo of Upper Ishmun. Your share of the poll-tax on your head for the year 136 is 2 dinars by count. Pay that to the one responsible for your village in six instalments, so that he may write for you a quittance for it […] with his seal, and do not pay him anything besides that […] because […] write that he take […] in your village for poll-tax, for Bashit (?) or another; if he takes from you a due […] to it; and if he refuses to write it for you, do not pay him anything. And beware, for I have not written you anything […] Written by Yahya […] in Jumada II of the year 136. † With God. […] Almoun (?) […] son of Sziad (?), over the south of Shmoun, the city. To Johannes son of Isidoros, the man of the monastery of Apa Apollo: these are the amounts I have assessed on you, and you are to pay them for your demand-note (diagraphon) of the tax quota of the 8th indiction, year 136, namely 2 solidi. […] you are to pay them in six instalments, you are to pay them to the assistant of your village (?) […] receive an entagion for them, he sealing it with his seal for each (?) […] it happens to a man that he dies, that is […] your assistant does not wish to give you a receipt, come here to me […] when your […] has been taken from you in your entagion. So that you may know, I have made known (?) this note to you.

The Arabic year 136 (Jumada II) corresponds to December 753; the Coptic section equates it with the 8th indiction. Readings of several names and of parts of both texts are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Entagion). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Dez. 753

… μ ἀνυσθὲν ἰνδικτίονος يسم الله الر حمن الرحيم هذا كتاب من هشام بن زتاد عامل الامير عبد الملك بن يزيد على اعلى اشمون ليحنس ابن اسدور من اهل دير ابو ابلوا من اعلى اشمون ابه اصابك من خزيه راسك لسنة ست وثلثين وماية دنيرين عددا فادفع ذلك الى قبل قريتك فى ستة اطبل فان يكتتب لك براءة …