p.louvre.bawit.36
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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 341842
Fragment of an account (?) mentioning a gold solidus TM 341842Bawit (Hermopolites)VII - VIII
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A small fragment of a Coptic text, possibly an account, from the monastery of Bawit in the Hermopolite region, dating to the 7th or 8th century AD. It mentions numbers, gold and the payment of a solidus, and names a man called Gregorios.
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
[…] 2
[…] (?) [… ] 4
[…] one ounce (?) of gold; I gave one solidus
[…] to him; Gregorios is staying (?)
[…]
[… lines lost …]
The identification as an account is tentative. 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 Compte (?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.