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A seventh-century money account from the Hermopolite nome recording payments of gold (in solidi and carats) handed over to certain brothers on Epeiph 1 of a fifth indiction. Items include sums for city and village taxes, a commutation payment, payments by receipts and by letter of the chartularius Petros, and 44 artabas of grain in the name of the scholastikos Christodoros. The verso labels it as gold sent to the city by Epimachos and Amma Kl[…].
Several abbreviations (apolyt-, prosgraph-, diak-) are unresolved, so those lines are uncertain; 'kephalē/kephalaion' may mean either poll-tax units or a capital sum.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Money account). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] † λόγος χρυσίου δοθέντος τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς Ἐπεὶφ α ἰνδικτίονος ε· ὑπὲρ ἀστικῶν κεφαλῶν νομίσματα λζ λίτρα 𐅵 καὶ κεράτια ϛ ὁμοίως ὑπὲρ κώμης Ἑρμηταρίου κεφαλαίου νομίσματα η καὶ σιμίσιον α ποιεῖ νομίσματα η καὶ κεράτια θ ὁμοίως ὑπὲρ ἀπαργυρισμοῦ Κουσσῶν κεφαλῶν νομίσματα κ ποιεῖ ν…
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