Account of administrative expenses paid by the meizon Menas TM 19884Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)ca. 709

Fragment of an account of expenses incurred for the administration by Menas, a village headman (meizon), from the 3rd indiction, at Aphrodito in Upper Egypt around AD 709. Items include sheep bought for an Arab named Abdella son of Abdelmelech, couriers carrying the governor's letters, ship freight for supplies to Klysma, and wages of messengers.

In English machine translation

The 'counsellor' (symboulos) is the Greek title of the Arab governor of Egypt, Qurra ibn Sharik. Symmachoi were official messengers or couriers, and Klysma (near Suez) was a port supplied for the Arab fleet.

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.