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Declarations of village officials on tax assessment and fugitives TM 39834Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VIII

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Fragmentary Coptic declarations by village representatives, apparently of the hamlet of Nisikaite, concerning the assessment of taxes and the handing over of fugitives. They swear they assessed no one beyond his means out of enmity or spared anyone out of friendship, and left no one out down to a ten-year-old child, accepting any penalty the official imposes. It dates from the 8th century AD at Aphrodito.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] Total: 1 1/2 gold solidi […] […] Pharo son of Petros and Apa Kyre […] […] the fugitives out, in hospitality (?) […] […] we have not imposed anything on anyone beyond [his means] […] out of enmity, nor have we relieved anyone [out of friendship], and that we have not left a single person behind […] [down] to a little child of ten years […] we have assessed for you. But if you find […] that we have done this, we shall be liable […] any [penalty] that your lordship will determine [against us]. I, Joseph son of Viktor, they asked me […] [verso] […] […] of Phoibammon […] [and Th]eutosi son of […] […] the hamlet of Nisikaite (?), we agree to bring the fugitives out […] his means, and we acknowledge [that we have not] imposed […] beyond his means out of enmity, nor that we have relieved [anyone out of] friendship, and that we have not left a single person behind […] nor down to a little child of ten years […] for you. But if you find that we have done this, [we shall be] liable to any penalty that your lordship [will determine] against us. † I, Pshoi son of the late Mena, […] I wrote for him since he does not know letters. †

Recto and verso carry closely parallel versions of the same guarantee formula, typical of the Aphrodito archive under Arab administration. The place name Nisikaite is a tentative reading.

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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