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A tax receipt recording payment of 69 carats by the monastery of Abba Apollo for the village of Demetriou, paid through Petros, a monk, for the 2nd indiction. It was written by Pinoution on Mecheir 8 of the 5th indiction, in the mid-7th century, at Bawit in the Hermopolite nome.
The monastery of Abba Apollo at Bawit was a major monastic centre. The word read as 'fifth' and the abbreviation 'organon', perhaps an irrigation machine or a payment unit, are uncertain, as is how they relate to the installment.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
† κώμης Δημητρίου πέμπτης ἰνδικτίωνος β καταβολῆς ὑπὲρ μοναστηρίου Ἀββᾶ Ἀπολλῶτος· διὰ ὀργάνου Ἀντωνίας διὰ Πέτρου μονάζοντος κεράτια ἑξήκοντα ἐννέα, γίνεται κεράτια ξθ. ἐγράφη Μεχειρ η ἰνδικτίωνος ε. † δι’ ἐμοῦ Πινουτί ἐλαχίστου ἐγράφη στοιχεῖ. †
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