Fragment of a tax assessment from Aphrodito listing the sums in gold solidi owed by the village, its hamlets and a monastery in successive instalments of the public taxes, followed by a list of names. It dates to the 8th century AD.
In English machine translation
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[With God,] assessment of the first exagia of the public [taxes …]
[Village of] Aphrodito: first instalment, 350 solidi […]
Hamlet of Keramion: first instalment, 3 solidi […]
Hamlet of the Hills (Bounoi): first instalment, 5 solidi, second [instalment …]
Hamlet of the Emphyteutai: first instalment, 8 solidi, second instalment […]
Hamlet of Saint Pinoution: first instalment, 10 solidi, second instalment, 11 solidi […]
Hamlet of Sakoore: first instalment, 2 solidi
Monastery of Pharoou: first instalment, 2 solidi
[…] [first instalment, solidi] 55, second instalment, 30 solidi, third instalment, [solidi] 3[…], fourth instalment, ⟨solidi⟩ 29
Aleele
[…]aul son of Auleptos and brothers
Zographor
Kerbaule
Leia
Mamo Themati
Pabikla
Panos
Papoui
Papchoore
Patode
Pdoux
Pkoutse
Polei
Ptzots
Pchore
Sabilios
Salsileto
Serd
Sonsnau
Tanna
Ioannes son of Georgios Telbo
Psouke
from the estate of Phthla
seller of vetch (?)
Exagia here refers to tax payments in gold, assessed in instalments (prothesmiai). The final word, read as orbiopoles, probably means a dealer in vetch or pulses, but the expansion is 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.