Letter from the pagarch Flavius Kollouthos to the fathers and priests about tax arrears TM 341853Bawit (Hermopolites)VIII

Fragmentary official letter in Coptic from the pagarch Flavius Kollouthos, written through a secretary, to the fathers and priests of a monastic community in the district of Isak. It concerns letters received about outstanding arrears of public taxes, which are to be paid in full, apparently by the next day, a Sunday. It comes from Bawit in the Hermopolite nome, 8th century AD.

In English machine translation

The pagarch was the official in charge of a district's tax collection in early Islamic Egypt. Several words are uncertain because the right side of each line is lost.

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