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An account listing payments in gold solidi made by individuals and groups of farmers from villages such as Penne and Kirka, apparently as rent, for a fourteenth indiction year. It comes from the Hermopolite nome and dates to the 5th or 6th century AD.
The opening χμγ (643) is a Christian isopsephic symbol often read as standing for a pious formula, not a number in the account. Amounts are stated as solidi 'less' so many carats or grammata, a common way of expressing underweight gold; 'of full weight' renders eustathma.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] χμγ λόγος χρυσικοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίωνος Ἰωάννης Παησίου ἀπὸ Πεννη χρυσοῦ νομίσματα ιβ παρὰ κεράτια λϛ Παχῦμις Περητ ἀπὸ Πεννη χρυσοῦ νομίσματα ϛ εὔσταθμα Ιασνεν Φαρωσιος ἀπὸ Πεννη χρυσοῦ νομίσματα δ 𐅵 εὔσταθμα γεωργοῖς ἀπὸ Κιρκᾶ χρυσοῦ νομίσματα ζ παρὰ γράμμ…
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