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Account of gold payments by districts and monasteries of Aphrodito TM 39763Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VIII

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A fiscal account from Aphrodito listing sums of gold coin (solidi and carats) owed or paid by districts, groups, villages and monasteries of the area, with paired figures giving nominal amounts and their equivalents. It dates to the 8th century AD.

In English machine translation

† By bank order (?), of the 505 1/2 (?) thus: Aphrodito: Lykas, 9 solidi 4 carats, making 10 solidi; Elal, [...] solidi [...] carats, making [...] solidus; Upper and Lower Country, 14 solidi 4 carats, making 15 solidi; total 23 solidi, making 25 solidi. Pakauneos: 4 solidi 12 carats, making 5 solidi; likewise 5 solidi 12 carats, making 6 solidi; likewise; total 10 solidi, making 11 solidi. Through (?) holding 183 solidi 8 carats, in counted coin 200 solidi. Village of Aphrodito: counted coin 78 solidi, holding 71 solidi 20 carats; Fifth Plain district 26 1/2 solidi, holding 24 solidi 16 carats; Third Plain district 14 1/2 solidi, holding 13 solidi 4 carats; Second Plain district 10 1/2 solidi, 9 solidi 21 carats; men of Saint Mary 3 solidi, 2 solidi 16 carats; Pakauneos 40 solidi, 36 solidi 20 carats; Emphyteutai 3 solidi, 2 solidi 16 carats; [...] Bounoi 5 1/3 solidi, 4 solidi 20 carats; Keramion 3 1/3 solidi, 3 solidi [...] carats; Psyrou 5 1/3 solidi, 4 solidi 20 carats; Poimen 1 1/2 solidi, 1 solidus 12 carats; Sakore 2 1/6 solidi, 1 solidus 22 carats; monastery of Taroou 1/3 solidus, [...] solidi 7 carats; monastery of Pharoou 1/3 solidus, 7 carats; monastery of Barbaros 1/3 solidus, 7 carats; Saint Pinoution 2 1/6 (?) solidi, 2 solidi 20 carats; mountain of Abba Hermauos 1 solidus, [...] solidus 22 carats; mountain of Saint Mary 1 solidus, [...] solidus 22 carats.

The paired figures seem to contrast coin by weight ('holding') with counted coin (arithmia), a distinction in Arab-period tax accounting; some figures are abbreviated and their exact relation is uncertain. A carat is 1/24 of a solidus.

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

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