An account listing payments of various rents (pakta) owed by individuals, monasteries, a church and a guesthouse, recorded in carats of gold and artabas of wheat. It dates to the 7th or 8th century AD and belongs to the archive of the monastery of Apollo, probably at Bawit.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] village […]
of various rents (pakta) […]
through the place (topos) of Kames, through the lord Theodoros […]
through, likewise, through Apa Epimachos […]
through, likewise, through Apa Zacharias […]
through, likewise, through the guesthouse […]
through Taurinos son of Ioannes […]
through David son of Enochios […]
through the lord Taurinos from Atteinou […]
through Joseph son of Cholos […]
through the monastery of Apa Apollos […]
through Apollos son of Pamounios […]
through Apollos from Toiasis […]
through Kollouthos, vegetable-seller (?) […]
through Iakybios, barber […]
through Apa Sourous, priest […]
through Ioannes son of Pdiakos […]
through the monastery of Apa Anouphios […]
through Victor from Palas […]
through Endios from Hierou Dios […] wheat, 1 artaba […]
through Apa Pieous, priest […] wheat, 2 artabas
through Amoun son of Phibios, 6 carats […] wheat, 2 artabas
through Kyriakos son of Pemjol, 9 carats […] wheat, 3 artabas
through Ptolemaios son of Psates, 7 carats […] wheat, 2 artabas […]
through Serenos, builder, 6 carats […] wheat, 2 artabas
through Theodosios son of Serenos, 3 carats […] wheat, 1 artaba
through Anouphios son of Mouses, 3 carats […] wheat, 1 artaba
through Kyriakos son of Abraham, 3 carats […] wheat, 1 artaba
through Pkylis son of Paphnouthios, 3 carats […] wheat, 1 artaba
through Isak, baker, 3 carats […] wheat, 1 artaba
through Abraham, baker, 3 carats […] wheat, 1 artaba
through the holy church, 3 carats […] wheat, 1 artaba
through Onnophris son of Jacob, 6 carats […] wheat, 2 artabas
through Philotheos son of Konstantios, 5 carats […]
through Phib son of Paneous, 6 carats […] wheat, 2 artabas
through Pamoun son of Apalo, 6 carats […] wheat, 2 artabas
through Basilios son of Victor, 8 carats […]
Together, total: solidi […] wheat, artabas […]
[verso]
[… 2 lines lost …]
† village […]
Pakta were fixed payments (rents or tax assessments) in late antique Egypt. The reading of Kollouthos's occupation as vegetable-seller is an uncertain expansion of an abbreviation.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of pactum payments due). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.