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Tax demand from the governor Qurra ibn Sharik to the monastery of Barbarou TM 23484Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 709

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A tax demand notice issued by Qurra ibn Sharik, Arab governor of Egypt, to the monastery of Barbarou at Aphrodito, assessing it 10 gold solidi for the public taxes of the 6th indiction (Hijra year 88). It was written in Thoth of the 8th indiction, AD 709.

In English machine translation

Of the monastery of Barbarou, 10 solidi. [… 6 lines lost …] In the name of God. Qurra son of Sharik, governor, to you, the people of the monastery of Barbarou of the village of Aphrodito. There has fallen to your share for the public taxes of the 6th indiction, according to the Arab year 88, 10 counted solidi, ten only. Written in the month of Thoth of the eighth indiction.

Qurra son of Sharik (Qurra ibn Sharik) was the Umayyad governor of Egypt; the title 'symboulos' is the Greek term used for him. 'Counted' solidi (arithmia) refers to coins reckoned by number rather than by weight.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eine Steueransage des Statthalters). 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 · 29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 709 · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

μοναστηρίου Βαρβαρίου νομισμάτια ι. [… 6 lines lost …] ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ θεοῦ. Κορρᾶ υἱὸς Σζερὶχ σύμβουλος ὑμῖν τοῖς ἀπὸ μοναστηρίου Βαρβαρίου κώμης Ἀφροδιτώ. ἔλαχεν ὑμῖν ὑπὲρ δημοσίων ἰνδικτίονος ϛ κατὰ Ἄραβας ἔτους πη ἀρίθμια νομισμάτια ι δέκα μόνα. ἐγράφη μηνὸς Θὼθ ἰνδικτίονος ὀγ…