Guarantee for sailors sent to the raiding fleet from Bounoi and Sakoore TM 19924Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)14. März 709
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A bilingual Greek-Coptic guarantee agreement from Aphrodito in which the village headmen of Bounoi and Sakoore stand surety for sailors sent to serve in the Arab-period Egyptian raiding fleet. It opens with an Islamic-style invocation and is signed by witnesses and the notary Theodoros, dated 14 March 709.
In English machine translation
The kourson was the annual naval raiding expedition of the Umayyad fleet, manned by levies from Egyptian villages. Some Coptic names and phrases in the guarantor's statement are damaged and their rendering is 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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