One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 39816

Account of wages with witness statements to an agreement TM 39816Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VIII

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Fragment of a bilingual Greek and Coptic document from Aphrodito, 8th century AD. The first part lists payments in solidi for a caulker and a workman; the rest preserves Coptic witness statements to an agreement, one by an abbot son of the late Mena, ending with the scribe Makarios.

In English machine translation

[…] […]… caulker 1, for 4 1/2 solidi […] for 1 workman, for 2 1/2 solidi […] of a counted solidus 1/3 (?), solidi, folles 27 1/2 […] of a solidus 3 […] … the man of Jkow (?) […] solidus … (?) […] three and … (?) […] […] the abbot, the son of the blessed Mena; I bear witness […] I bear witness that … the solidus (?) […] … according to its force † […] this agreement according to its force, and I bear witness […] Ezekiel (?) and their payment, according to […] witness to this agreement […] Ezekiel (?) and their exchange […] † through me, Makarios, with God […]

The Greek account lines and the Coptic witness clauses may belong to a single agreement about paying workmen, perhaps for shipbuilding; the Coptic lines are badly damaged and several readings 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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