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Register of payments to messengers sent on official business TM 70283Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)30. Nov. 706

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Fragmentary register of messengers, mostly Arab clients (mawali) and muhajirun, who came to the village on official business such as tax payments, requisitions, and wages of sailors for the raiding fleet. It dates to the early 8th century, at Aphrodito in Upper Egypt.

In English machine translation

[recto] [... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] [...] ... [...] [...] [...] of public shirts (?) and requisition orders and ... [...] [...] and salt-works and sailors, together with 6 solidi [...] [...] of the karaboi for 4 months and palm-branches on account of the granaries [...] [...] mawla of the most illustrious counsellor, who came on account of the mesacha (?) of the [...] [...] ... [...] ... on account of [...] [...] ... Yazid, mawla of the counsellor, who came on account of the payment through the agency of the pagarch [...] [verso] [... lines lost ...] [...] ... who came on account of exchange (?) [...] [...] ... who came on account of ... [...] [...] son of Abu Yazid (?), who came on account of [...] ... from [...] [...] son of Abdallah, who came on account of the wages of the sailors of the raiding fleet ... [...] [...] son of Amr, the muhajir, who came on account of [...] [...] through the agency of Georgios [...] [...] ... son of Thouap, who came on account of the field-guards of Tephythis [...]

Mawla (pl. mawali) denotes a non-Arab client of an Arab patron, and muhajir an Arab settler-soldier; the kursus was the annual naval raiding expedition. Karaboi were boats.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Registro di pagamenti a messaggeri). 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

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