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A Ninth-century Coptic Tax Refund Document. Reedition of CPR IV 197

par Berkes, Lajos;Delattre, Alain ;Vanthieghem, Naim
Référence Chronique d'Egypte, 96, page (164-172)
Publication Publié, 2021-12-01

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Re-edition of a Coptic document on papyrus (region of Shmoun, in Middle Egypt, middle of the ninth century). It is interpreted here as a declaration by which taxpayers confirm that they have received from the local tax collector the money they overpaid for a given fiscal year. The document includes three loanwords borrowed from the Arabic fiscal vocabulary and is especially noteworthy as an example of the use of Coptic in the administrative sphere.