Fragmentary Coptic acknowledgment by Enoch, a soldier of the village of Djkow, concerning gold paid as money commutation for workmen requisitioned from the village, under the governor Abdella son of Abdelmelech and the pagarch Epimachos. It records 2 1/2 solidi received and is subscribed by a scribe and several witnesses; dated 24 August 708 at Aphrodito.
In English machine translation
[Fr1]
[…]
[…] and of the Holy Spirit, the holy, life-giving and consubstantial Trinity in unity. † Written in the month of the epagomenal days, day 1, seventh indiction. †
Enoch the soldier, man of the village of Djkow (Jkow), writes
[…] lord, the all-praised Abdella son of Abdelmelech
[…] the most glorious lord, the lord Epimachos the illustrious […]
[…] and its hamlet and its plains […]
[…] solidus of gold and with […]
[…]
[Fr2]
[…]
[…] what will happen […] to me
[…] now I acknowledge that the amount
[…] money commutation for the workmen of this village, a half
[…] money commutation
[…] tremissis which you gave into my hands, and the half
[…] sent north for the half workman
[…] able to come out on account of this matter, this
[…]
[Fr3]
[…]
[…] with them, according to the force of the order
[…] counsellor, who sent them to us in this year
[…] the amount of gold, therefore, of this village, I acknowledge
[…] ready, therefore
[…]
[Fr4]
[…]
[…] nor again […]
[…] to go to the outer country after the men
[…] Athanasios, man of this same village of Djkow
[…] of the same village
[…]
[Fr5]
[…]
[…] the public account being secured, therefore
[…] I agree to it through the one who writes
[…] all my property for this matter, swearing by the name
[…] of the lords who rule, to keep
[…] I was asked and I acknowledged. †
[…]
[Fr6]
[…]
[…] acknowledgment
[…] that the two and a half solidi, making 2 1/2 gold nomismata
[…] which you gave to me into my hands, and
[…] for the half workman whom you sent
[…] the most humble presbyter, he having told me, I wrote for him. †
[…] I am witness to this acknowledgment.
[…] † I, Phoibammon son of the late
[…] as I heard from those who set it out. †
[…] to this acknowledgment according to its force. †
[…] Makare, I am witness to this acknowledgment.
[…] of the tremissis which came into the hands of Mena
[…] whom they sent north for the half workman. †
[…] Prakitas, I am witness to this acknowledgment according to its force
[…] into your hands, Mena, apart from the half […]
[…]
Abdella son of Abdelmelech is the Umayyad governor of Egypt 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-Malik. Aparguismos (money commutation) means paying cash instead of supplying labourers for public works.
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.