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Order to the tax receiver John for payment of 48 1/3 gold carats TM 19689Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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An order addressed to John, receiver of public taxes, to pay out 48 1/3 gold carats from the tax receipts, made up of contributions through Charisios and Bottos for estates and village resources. It is signed by the two village headmen (protokometai) Charisios and Bottos at Aphrodito, dated Epeiph 24.

In English machine translation

643 [† Payment to John] the receiver: provide [from your] receipt of the public taxes [of the canon (?)] of the […] indiction, of gold [carats forty]-eight and one third by the scale, [total 48] 1/3 carats by the scale, through Charisios for his estate […] carats twenty-one; Thmonychthe (?) through the same [carats …] and a half and a quarter; and for the resources of the village [carats …] and through Bottos carats […], (total) 48 1/3 carats, which was given to the public taxes […] Epeiph 24 of the same indiction … I, Charisios, protokometes, agree. I, Bottos, protokometes, agree.

The opening 'χμγ' (643) is the Christian numerical cryptogram for 'Christ born of Mary' rather than a number. A protokometes was a leading village official responsible for tax matters.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for payment from village treasury). 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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