A series of Coptic declarations with Greek payment notes in which Patermoute, tax receiver of the estate or community of Apa Pinoution, acknowledges to the pagarch Basilios the amounts of public taxes in gold solidi paid in instalments of a sixth indiction. Payments made through the village headman Patermouthios and a logographos are noted with dates from Tybi to Mesore.
In English machine translation
[fragment 1]
† I, Patermouthe, the hypodektes (tax receiver) of Apa Pinoution, write to the public account through you, the most glorious lord, lord Basilios the pagarch: I have not paid to you anything of the public taxes of the first instalment of the sixth indiction except 8 solidi, according to the value of these days. Thus, thus.
[fragment 2]
Tybi 14, through Patermouthios the headman, 8 solidi. † Patermouthios agrees. Through me, Philotheos son of Menas, having been asked, it was written on his behalf. †
† I, Patermouthe, the hypodektes of Apa Pinoution, write to the public account through you, the most glorious lord, lord Basilios the pagarch: I have not paid to you anything in the second exagion of the first instalment of the sixth indiction except 6 solidi, according to the value of these days. Thus, thus.
Mecheir 9, through Patermouthios the headman, 5 solidi.
[…] Phamenoth […]
[fragment 3]
[…] I have not paid to you anything in the third exagion of the first instalment of the sixth indiction except 2 solidi, according to the value of these days. Thus, thus.
Phamenoth 2, through Patermouthios, 2 solidi.
3, through the same, 2 solidi.
† I, Patermouthe, the hypodektes of Apa Pinoution, write to the public account through you, the most glorious lord, lord Basilios: I have not paid to you anything of the public taxes of the second instalment of the sixth indiction except half a solidus, according to the value of these days. Thus, thus.
Mesore 3, through Horouonchios the logographos […], 1/2 solidus.
† Patermouthios agrees. Through me, Philotheos son of Menas, having been asked, it was written on his behalf. †
Basilios was pagarch of Aphrodito around AD 709-714; the records give no explicit date. An exagion here seems to denote a payment instalment within the tax katabole.
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.