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Acknowledgement by the pistikos Shenoute of receipt of gold and wheat taxes TM 19939Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)7. Febr. 708

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A Coptic acknowledgement by Shenoute son of Enoch, a pistikos (fiscal agent) of Aphrodito, addressed to the pagarch and the counsellor Abdella son of Abdelmelech, confirming that he has received gold and wheat collected under the counsellor's orders for the sixth indiction. A surviving fragment gives a total of 170 1/2 gold solidi. It dates to 7 February 708 at Aphrodito.

In English machine translation

† In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the holy, life-giving and consubstantial Trinity in unity. † Written in the month Mecheir 12, sixth indiction † † I, Shenoute, son of the blessed Enoch, pistikos, man of the village of Djkow (Aphrodito), […] through you, the all-praiseworthy lord Abdella son of Abdelmelech the counsellor (symboulos), through you, from you, the most glorious lord […] pagarch of the same village of Djkow and its hamlets (epoikia) […] acknowledge (?). I, Shenoute, who write this document, wish and consent to your lordship and make this acknowledgement of my own will and persuasion and […] without any force or compulsion or deceit or error or fraud or any legal (objection), that I acknowledge that […] trimesia of gold and wheat […] came into my hands according to the orders (epistalmata) of the all-praiseworthy counsellor, which they sent south to the whole administration (dioikesis), […] sixth indiction, according to the content of the lines (stichoi) which I shall set out below in this acknowledgement […] [Fragment] […] of the pistikos, various lines, total: gold solidi 170 1/2 […] 12 […] † […]

Djkow is the Coptic name of Aphrodito. Pistikos denotes a trusted agent, here involved in tax collection under the early Arab administration..

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 · 7. Febr. 708 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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