Fragment of a tax account from Aphrodito in the early 8th century, listing sums in gold solidi paid in instalments, including penalties connected with the pagarch Ioannes and his assistants and charges for the village dykes and canals.
In English machine translation
[Fragment B, recto]
[… ? lines lost …]
from the 65 solidi, 325 (?) ... with 154 solidi 3 ... paid in according to the second instalment (?) […]
penalty of Ioannes the pagarch and assistants ... of the dioiketes […]
of the fine ... […] ... sailors (?) […]
from the dykes and canals of the village […]
total 231 solidi […]
Several figures and abbreviations are uncertain; the reading 'νοτ κε' is unclear and 'second instalment' depends on a partly restored abbreviation. The solidus (nomisma) was the standard Byzantine gold coin.
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.4.1456b_r). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.