Fragment of a fiscal account from Aphrodito listing payments in gold solidi for the distributions (tax assessments) connected with boats (karaboi) of Babylon. Only the heading and repeated entries marked 'likewise' survive.
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The karabos was a type of boat; such accounts belong to the early Arab-period tax records from Aphrodito, where 'distribution' (dianome) refers to an apportioned levy. Babylon here is the fortress city in Egypt near later Cairo.
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.