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Account of payments for fleet, fugitive sailors and caliphal requisitions TM 19883Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)704 - 705 (?)

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Fragmentary account of gold payments (in solidi) made by or through Aphrodito under early Arab rule, covering fleet supplies, a fine for fugitive sailors, Klysma requisitions, expenses of the governor's counsellor, transport of the Caliph's slaves and wages of craftsmen sent to Africa. It dates to about AD 704-705.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] administration (dioikesis) of Ioannes son of Abraham, from Lykon (?) […] for the sea (i.e. the fleet), through Iezekiel son of Psemnouthios, 8 solidi in number […] instead of the dux, for various kinds of supplies for the boats, by authority (?), through Victor from Par[…], 69 1/3 1/12 solidi […] of the dux, for the fine for 41 sailors who fled, of those assigned from Tephythis, at 3 solidi each, 123 solidi […] 86 solidi, exchange 2 solidi […] 37 solidi […] various kinds of supplies for Klysma, through Severus, pistikos, from the village of Terythis in the Antaiopolite nome, 21 1/3 solidi […] of the counsellor (symboulos), for expenses of the counsellor, through Senouthios son of Eirene, pistikos, 85 solidi, ⟦for wages of weighers and⟧ exchange 2 1/3 solidi […] for transport of slaves of the Amir al-Mu'minin, through the same Senouthios, 72 1/2 solidi […] for wages of craftsmen for Africa, through Iezekiel son of Psemnouthios, pistikos, 13 2/3 (?) solidi […] of the counsellor, for various freight charges, out of 28 1/2 solidi, 10 1/2 solidi

Amir al-Mu'minin ('Commander of the Faithful') is the caliph; the symboulos is the Arab governor's counsellor. A pistikos was a trusted agent conveying the payments..

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as p.lond.4.1438+1484). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 704 - 705 (?) · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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