Letter concerning tax payments and a loan of 6 solidi TM 341847Bawit (Hermopolites)VIII

Fragment of a Coptic letter from the monastic milieu of Bawit concerning problems with paying public taxes. The writer mentions borrowing 6 solidi and sending money through his brother Jacob; the address on the back names an archimandrite, his son Kyros, and Jacob on the estate of Kos.

In English machine translation

Demosion is the Greek term for public taxes owed to the state. 'Kos' in the address may be a place name or part of an estate name; its reading is uncertain.

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