One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10151
Receipt of a public animal-keeper of Narmouthis for grain transport fees TM 10151Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)7. Febr. 155
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A receipt in which Satyros son of Heron, a public animal-keeper of the village of Narmouthis, acknowledges payment from the public bankers Sabinus and associates of 26 drachmas 2 obols for transporting grain of year 17. It was written in the Arsinoite nome on 7 February 155 AD.
In English machine translation
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To Sabinus and his associates, public bankers.
Satyros son of Heron, public donkey-keeper (?) of the village of Narmouthis, through Preimos […]
I have received from you the sums ordered […] of the […] division, for the transport work carried out under Demetrios also called Harpokration, strategos of the divisions of Themistos and Polemon, of the produce of year 17, 3 1/4 1/24 artabas, at 8 (obols) for each artaba, making together 26 drachmas 2 obols of silver, total 26 drachmas 2 obols, nothing having been deducted for the one-percent charge or anything else.
I, Satyros son of Herakl… son of Heron, have received the aforementioned 26 drachmas [2 obols], as stated above. Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mecheir 13.
A ktenotrophos was a keeper of pack animals used for public grain transport. The rate per artaba and the amount (roughly 3 1/3 artabas) do not compute neatly, so the figures may be damaged or the rate expressed in obols differently.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipts for the Payment of Grain Transport Fees). 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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