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Account of payments for sailors' commutation and expenses TM 39766Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VIII

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Fragment of an account from Aphrodito in the 8th century AD listing sums in gold solidi connected with money payments in place of sailors, assessed on monasteries and hamlets of the district, together with expenses paid to officials and others, including a chartularius and a man who travelled with the pagarch.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] money-commutations (?) for sailors […] […] 1/2 solidus; monastery ("mountain") of Saint Mary 1 1/3 solidi; freight of a boat 2 solidi […] [… monastery of] Barbaros 2/3 solidus; monastery of Abba Hermaotes 1 1/3 solidi; monastery of Taroou 1/3 solidus […] hamlet Poimen 1/2 solidus; people of Saint Mary 1/2 1/3 solidus; monasteries 1 solidus […] hamlet of Psyrou 1 1/3 solidi; monastery of Pharoou 1/3 solidus […] Makarios 3 solidi; spent on Horouonchios the chartularius 3 solidi; spent on Theodoros son of Ioannes 2 solidi […] 2 solidi; spent on Pachymios the seller of vetch (?), who went down with the pagarch, 2 solidi; spent on Theodoros, servant of the glorious one, 11 solidi […] spent on Theodoros likewise for their gratuity (?) […] […] from Pakauneos 2 2/3 solidi […] Pediades 1/2 solidus; Bounoi 1/6 solidus; Saint Pinoution 1/6 solidus; monastery of Barbaros 1/3 solidus […] monastery of Taroou 1/6 solidus; monastery of Pharoou 1/6 solidus; Poimen 1/6 solidus; people of Saint Mary 1/6 solidus

"Oros" (mountain) here designates desert monasteries. Sailors' commutation was a money payment levied instead of supplying men for the Arab fleet; some fractions and the abbreviated line 8 are uncertain.

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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VIII · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

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