One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 39822

Witness subscriptions to an agreement on payment of solidi and presentation of four men TM 39822Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VIII

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Fragments of a Coptic legal document from Aphrodito, 8th century AD, consisting mainly of witness statements confirming that ten solidi plus small sums, the exchange charge calculated at 38 folles per solidus, and four men to be presented have been received by someone. Witnesses include Andreas and Theodosios son of Philotheos; the document was drawn up by the notary Theodoros.

In English machine translation

[Fragment 1] […] at the rate of 38 folles to the solidus […] […] folles, and I agree that […] [Fragment 2] […] I am witness that the [ten (?)] […] […] and 7 folles […] 38 (?) folles to the solidus […] has come into his hands, and a tremissis of wages. † † I […] this agreement according to its force […] has come into the hands of Ezekiel and […] has come into his hands at the rate of 38 [folles] […] who goes to the place to present himself has also come into his hands. † I […] this agreement according to its force, † and I am witness that the [ten solidi] […] and a keration and 7 folles, and that their exchange (agio) has come into his hands at the rate of […] the four men have come into his hands, of the pistikos. † I, Andreas, the […] I [know] the agreement according to its force, and I am witness that the ten [solidi] […] and a keration and 7 folles, and that their exchange [has come into his hands at the rate of 38 folles] to the solidus, and the four persons who go [to the place to present themselves have also come into his hands †] † I, Theodosios, son of the late Philotheos, am witness to the [agreement] […] witness that the ten solidi and a tremissis have come into his hands […] and 7 folles, and that their exchange has come into [his] hands […] and the four persons who go to the place to present themselves [have also come into his hands †] † Through me, Theodoros, with God, notary. [† † †]

The four men 'going to the place to present themselves' may be workers or recruits whose appearance is guaranteed. 'Katallage' is the exchange charge for converting gold into copper folles; the reading 38 for the rate is partly uncertain in places.

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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