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Fragment of an early Arab-period account from Aphrodito recording sailors levied for the fleet, by indiction year. Entries list numbers of sailors supplied for Egyptian karaboi, eastern dromonaria and the Egyptian koursos, each for a period of months, with the payment amounts lost.
Karaboi and dromonaria are types of warships; the koursos was the annual naval raiding expedition of the Umayyad fleet, for which villages had to supply sailors or their maintenance costs.
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.
[FrA] [… ? lines lost …] ἰνδικτίονος β λόγῳ καράβων Αἰγύπτου ναῦται νθ […]… μηνῶν ϛ λόγῳ[…] λόγῳ δρομοναρίων Ἀνατολῆς ναῦται ιϛ μηνῶν ϛ λόγῳ[…] ἰνδικτίονος γ λόγῳ δρομοναρίων Ἀνατολῆς ναῦται ιη μηνῶν ϛ λόγῳ[…] λόγῳ κούρσου Αἰγύπτου ναῦται ο μηνῶν η λόγῳ[…] [… ? lines lost …]
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