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Account of requisitions for the fleet and public works, with Coptic agreement TM 19927Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)707 - 708

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An account of tax requisitions in gold from Aphrodito under early Arab rule, listing payments for sailors' maintenance for the raiding fleet, a public building project, Palestine, and the ship of Klysma, with supplies like oil, vinegar, salt and butter. It ends with a Coptic agreement accepting the assessment, signed by witnesses including a priest, and written by the notary Theodore, AD 707-708.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] under Abu Aun, in charge; of the kursus (raiding fleet) of the 7th indiction, at 1/2 1/3 solidus each per month, 2 1/2 solidi [...] on account of the requirement for the public building, under Abd ar-Rahman son of Salma, in charge, at 2 solidi per month, 6 solidi [...] Elal (?), in charge, at 1/2 1/3 solidus each, for the month 2 1/2 solidi [...] in Palestine, at 1 solidus per month, with 1/3 solidus for maintenance (aportrophe), provisions (katatrophe) 6 1/3 solidi; 48 1/2 1/12 1/24 solidi [...] wages of 1 workman on the same account 1/3 solidus; price of 1 small skin 1/3 solidus [...] for oil 1/2 sextarius 1/24 solidus; mats and baskets 2, 1/12 solidus [...] 1 1/2 1/3 solidus; 32 1/2 1/3 solidi [...] of the ship of Klysma, under Maamet son of Abi Abiba, in charge, for 8 months 4 1/2 1/3 1/12 1/24 solidi [...] for oil 24 sextarii 1 solidus; vinegar 24 sextarii 1/4 solidus; salt 6 kollatha 1/4 1/24 solidus [...] with 2/3 solidus exchange on the gold; butter 2 1/6 solidi [...] 1/2 [...] 1/12 [...] I agree that the share of five holokottinos (solidi) and a share [...] [...] the assessment written above [I am in agreement] [...] without fault in every respect, as the [...] counsellor will order; we will deliver the receipt to you [...] [...] [son of the] late Menas: I am witness, I agree according to its terms † [...] I am witness, I agree at the request of the one who drew it up † [...] Jacob: I am witness, I agree at the request [...] [by the will of God] this least of priests: I am witness, I agree according to its terms † [...] [son of the] late [...]: I am witness, I agree according to its terms † [...]: I am witness, I agree according to its terms † [† Through me, Theodore], with God, notary, it was written † † †

The kursus was the annual Arab naval raiding expedition, which Egyptian villages supplied with men and money. Fractions follow the edition's unit-fraction notation and some amounts are 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 707 - 708 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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