p.louvre.bawit.42
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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 341848
Letter concerning the andrismos tax TM 341848Bawit (Hermopolites)VII - VIII
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Fragmentary Coptic letter from the monastery of Bawit concerning the andrismos, a poll-tax, and mentioning a tremissis (a gold third-solidus coin). The address on the back directs it to a 'father', probably a monk.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[... ? lines lost ...]
[...] ... concerning ... [...] ... [...]
[...] ... the andrismos (poll-tax) ... [...]
[...] me, for (?) that we will cut it (?) ... [...]
[...] his/it, for the rest, ... the tremissis [...]
[...] leave it, and return it to me ... [...]
[verso]
† Give it to my father Moute (?).
Andrismos is a poll-tax on adult men with no exact English equivalent. The address may read 'to my father Moute' or 'to Patermoute'; the name is uncertain, and much of the body's sense is tentative.
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 l'andrismos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.