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A tax demand notice issued in the name of Flavius Atias, dux, through his agent Menas, to Apa Kouthe, listing what he owes for the diagraphe tax and other charges of an 11th indiction. The total is 17 1/6 carats of gold.
The diagraphe was a Byzantine-period tax assessment; amounts are in carats (keratia), fractions of the gold solidus. The breakdown in line 3 is abbreviated and partly unclear.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anweisung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
† σὺν θεῷ Φλάουιος Ἀτίας εὐκλεέστατος δοὺξ διὰ Μηνᾶ ὑμῖν ἄππα Κουθη υἱῷ …[…]…η ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως […] εἰσὶν τὰ ὀφειλόμενα καταβληθῆναι παρὰ σοῦ ὑπὲρ διαγραφῆς καὶ ἄλλων στίχων ια ἰνδικτίονος νομισμάτια 0 κεράτια ιζ ϛ […] ὑπὲρ διαγραφῆς σου κερατίου δίμοιρον 0 εκτ νομισματ κεράτιον α …
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