p.lond.4.1373
[Fr1] … [Fr2] … [Fr3] … [Fr4] … [Fr5] … [Fr6] […] μὴ ἀρέσκων ἡμῖν μήτε [Fr7] […] δημοσίων ἐστὶ λοιπὸν [Fr8] […]ν ὡς τὸ πρῶτον …[…]… [Fr9+`10] […] τῶν Μωαγαριτῶν τοῦ […]ς ἐγράφη μηνὸς Μεχεὶρ ι ἰνδικτίονος θ
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19829
Fragments of an official letter concerning public taxes TM 19829Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)4. Febr. 711
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Small fragments of a Greek official letter from the governor's chancery, part of the Aphrodito archive, mentioning public taxes and dated Mecheir 10 of the 9th indiction. It belongs to the early 8th-century correspondence sent to Aphrodito in the Antaiopolite nome.
In English machine translation
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[…] not pleasing to us, nor […]
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[…] of the public (taxes) is the remainder (?) […]
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[…] as at first […]
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[…] of the people of the Moagaritai (?) of the […]
[…] Written in the month of Mecheir, 10th, 9th indiction.
Most likely one of the letters of the governor Qurra ibn Sharik to the pagarch Basilios. The term Moagaritai is obscure and possibly a group or place name; 'public' refers to state taxes.
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.