Agreement by a guard concerning a payment in solidi TM 341831Bawit (Hermopolites)VIII - IX

Fragmentary Coptic legal agreement from the monastery site of Bawit, in which a guard (phylax) declares the terms of a transaction involving a price in gold solidi, dated the 24th of Parmoute. It ends with the subscriptions of Timotheos, who consents, and of a Severos describing himself as 'the most humble'.

In English machine translation

Much of the text is illegible, so the exact nature of the transaction is uncertain; 'phylax' denotes a guard or watchman. The solidus (holokottinos) was the standard Byzantine gold coin.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contrat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.