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Receipt for transport charges on public grain from Mouchis and Eleusis TM 10448Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)155 CE

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Receipt issued to the public bank of Sabinus and associates by public animal-keepers of the villages of Mouchis and Eleusis, through their representative Heraklas, for payment of transport charges on wheat and barley carried from the granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours. It lists the drivers and quantities and totals 237 drachmas 2 obols 2 chalkoi; dated 23 February 155 in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

To Sabinus and his associates, public bankers, from the undersigned public animal-keepers of the village of Mouchis and of Eleusis, through Heraklas, appointed representative. We have received the sums remitted to us by you for transport charges of wheat and barley which we were declared to have brought down from the granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours, 28 1/4 artabas of wheat and 2 1/3 1/24 artabas of barley, at 8 drachmas per artaba, making 226 drachmas, and for the barley at 480 drachmas per 100 artabas, 11 drachmas 2 obols 2 chalkoi, in all 237 drachmas 2 obols 2 chalkoi. They are as follows: Of Mouchis: Pacheus and Ekysis, 7 1/2 1/3 artabas of wheat Pacheus and Onnophris, 4 1/3 1/8 artabas of wheat Chrysas son of Pachnoubis, 5 1/4 artabas of wheat Pacheus son of Pacheus, 6 1/6 1/24 artabas of wheat Chrysas son of Pacheus, 3 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat Of Eleusis: Protas and Apheus, 3 1/12 artabas of wheat, 2/3 of barley Protas son of Naabos, 6 artabas of wheat, 1 2/3 1/24 of barley Total, the aforesaid. Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mecheir 29. I, Heraklas, the aforementioned, have received the aforesaid 237 drachmas 2 obols 2 chalkoi.

Part of a roll of receipts pasted together from the archive of the state bank. The barley rate, 480 drachmas per 100 artabas, rests on an editorial supplement.

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 payments by the state bank for services of transport, men and guards). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Receipts 155 AD

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · Col.inv. 1,7 and 1,10 · 155 CE · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

Receipts addressed to the state bank of Sabinos and Company by guards and transport men, which were pasted together into a continuous roll. They record 3 types of service: land transport of public grain; water transport; wages paid to policemen and tower-guards

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 23. Febr. 155 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

[1] Σαβείνῳ καὶ τοῖς σὺν αὐτῷ δημοσίοις τραπεζίταις παρὰ τῶν ὑπογεγραμμένων δημοσίων κτηνοτρόφων κώμης Μούχεως καὶ Ἐλευσῖνος διὰ Ἡρακλᾶτος ἀποσυσταθέντος. ἀπέχομεν τὰς ἐπισταλείσας ἡμῖν παρʼ ὑμῶν ὑπὲρ φορέτρων πυροῦ καὶ κριθῆς οὗ ἐδηλώθημεν κατηχέναι ἀπὸ θησαυρῶν Πολέμωνος εἰς το…