One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 39775
Arab-period protocol with basmala and profession of faith TM 39775Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VIII
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Fragment of a Greek protocol from early Islamic Egypt, bearing the Islamic invocation (basmala) and profession of faith (shahada) in Greek. Such protocols headed rolls of official papyrus; this one is associated with Aphrodito (Aphrodites Kome) in the 8th century AD.
In English machine translation
[In the name of] God the
[Merciful and] Compassionate
[…]
[There is no god but] God alone
[Muhammad is the apos]tle of God
[…]
[…]
Protocols were the official opening sheets of papyrus rolls issued under government control, and the formula here is largely restored from parallel examples. The lost lines probably held the Arabic version or the names of the caliph and governor.
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.
cpr.3.36
cpr.3.44
cpr.3.89
ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ἐλεήμονος καὶφιλανθρώπου [… 1 line lost …] οὐκ ἔστιν θεὸς εἰ μὴ ὁ θεὸς μόνος Μααμὲτ ἀπόστολος θεοῦ [… 1 line lost …] [… 3 lines lost …]