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Acknowledgement concerning four solidi, with witness subscriptions TM 86092Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VIII

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A fragmentary Coptic acknowledgement of debt or obligation involving four gold solidi, with a penalty clause binding the party and his heirs, followed by the subscription of the principal and signatures of several witnesses including a priest Apollo and a deacon Mena. It comes from Aphrodito in the 8th century AD and was written by a scribe Theodoros.

In English machine translation

[…] for the matter at the table (bank?) […] of Pashons, the month of the year (indiction?) […] person; I requested […] because of the difficulty (aporia), you [gave] […] them, the four solidi […] and because of them […] that I shall not be able to go out […] whether I or my heirs […] my person, whoever shall dare […] solidi as penalty […] in every place where it is produced (?) […] I have drawn up this acknowledgement […] in the name of God the Almighty […] which binds us to […] they questioned me; I agreed. [† I] […] [son of the] late Lakitas, who first wrote this acknowledgement, that his four solidi […] I, Petros, son of the late […] and I am witness that the four […] † Apollo, the least of priests, son of […] […] according to its force, and I am [witness] […] † I, Dioskoros, son of the late […] the request of the one who drew it up […] † I, Ioannes, son of the late […] according to its force, and I am [witness] […] Aurelius Shenoute (?) […] Mena, the deacon, the man of Pakhoou[ne] […] and I am witness that his four […] † Through me, Theodoros […]

The right side of every line is lost, so the exact nature of the obligation is unclear. Several readings (e.g. 'table', the name in line 25, the place Pakhoou[ne]) are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as keiner). 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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