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Account of solidus payments; Coptic undertaking on verso TM 39835Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VIII

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The recto is a fragmentary list of payments in fractions of a solidus made through named individuals; the verso preserves the end of a Coptic undertaking in which the signatories accept any penalty set by an official if they break their promise, written for them by the priest Pesosh of the hamlet of Pasaune. From Aphrodito, 8th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] [column 1] […] Through Psalos son of Diane(?), 1/6 solidus Through Makarios son of Pkame…, solidus […] Through Pnei son of Leontios, solidus […] Through Heraklios son of Hermaos, solidus […] Through Ioannes son of Onnophrios, solidus […] Through Theodosios son of Ioseph, 1/6 solidus Through Pnei son of Georgios, solidus […] Through […]amo[…] [column 2] […] Through Hermaos son of Apater, 1/6 solidus […] Through Theodosios son of Pkaule, 1/6 solidus […] Through Daniel son of Theodosios, 1/6 solidus […] Through Petros son of Basilios, through …[…] Through Peky son of Kollouthos, solidus […] Through Elias son of Baroos, solidus […] Through Kollouthos son of Mias, solidus […] Through Pekysios son of Hermaos, …[…] Through Ioannes […] [verso] […] son, being in (?) [the] years [we] shall [not cast him out to you] (?). But if you find (?) us having done this, so that we be liable to every penalty which your lordship shall determine against us. I, Pesosh (?), priest, son of the late Samuel, [the man of] the hamlet of Pasaune: they asked me and I wrote for them, because they do not know letters. †

The Coptic text on the verso is heavily restored at its start and its exact obligation is uncertain. The sign read as 1/6 may be a fraction of the solidus (nomisma), the standard gold coin.

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)

[r] [column 1] [… ? lines lost …] διὰ Ψάλος Διανη νομίσματος ϛ διὰ Μακαρίου Πκαμε… νομισμα […] διὰ Πνει Λεωντίου νομισμα[…] διὰ Ἡρακλίου Ἑρμαῶτος νομισμα […] διὰ Ἰωάννου Ὀννοφρίου νομισμα […] διὰ Θεοδοσίου Ἰωσὴφ νομίσματος ϛ διὰ Πνει Γεωργίου νομισμα[…] διὰ […]αμο[…] [column 2] […