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Register of requisitions and tax demands apportioned in Aphrodito TM 19866Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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An official tax register from Aphrodito recording demands received in Hathyr of a 3rd indiction: men requisitioned for Klysma, wages and maintenance of symmachoi (couriers/guards), and public taxes of the 1st indiction apportioned among the village, its subdivisions and monasteries, with collectors named.

In English machine translation

[F] † Month of Hathyr 14, 3rd indiction. By a letter brought concerning 3 men on account of Klysma, through Melee the courier […] Aphrodito 5 men, Pediades 1 man […] [F] Brought, month of Hathyr 23, 3rd indiction, for part of the wages and maintenance of a symmachos, 1 person, being in the service of the […] 1/5 (?) Pediades 1/3 solidus, 1 artaba of wheat; Pakauneus 1/6 solidus, 1 artaba of wheat […] For part of the wages and maintenance of symmachoi, 2 persons, in the service of the official in charge of your village, for 12 months, solidi […] Thus: Village of Aphrodito, 2 persons, 3 1/3 solidi, 12 artabas of wheat; 1/5 (?) Pediades solidi […] 1/2 (?) Pediades 1/3 solidus, 2 artabas; Pakauneus […] Brought, month of Hathyr 23, 3rd indiction, by an order of the symboulos, for public taxes of the 1st indiction which are owed to be paid […] Thus: Village of Aphrodito through Senouthios son of Enoch, 1,337 1/2 1/3 solidi; 1/5 (?) Pediades […] 1/3 (?) Pediades through Ioannes son of Kallinikos, 189 solidi; 1/2 (?) Pediades […] Men of Hagia Maria through Psates son of Jacob, 9 solidi; monastery […] of Pakauneus through the same, 72 1/2 solidi; Emphyteutai […] of Bounoi through the same, 16 solidi; Keramion […] Poimen through the same, 21 solidi; Psyrou […] of Hagios Pinoution through the same, 33 solidi; Sakoore […] of the mountain of Abba Hermaotes through the same, 11 1/6 solidi; monastery of Taroou […] Pharoou through the same, 3 solidi; Barbarou […] of the mountain of Hagia Maria through the same, 24 solidi. Total: 2,385 solidi.

Belongs to the Arab-period Aphrodito archive of the governor Qurra's era; a symmachos was a courier or guard paid by the villages. The fractions before 'Pediades' likely denote fractional districts of the village and are uncertain.

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.

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