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Receipt of donkey-drivers for transport charges of public wheat TM 10450Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)155 CE

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Receipt by three public donkey-drivers of Metrodorou Epoikion acknowledging payment of 227 drachmas from the state bankers Deios and Sabinos for transporting about 28 artabas of wheat from the granaries of the Polemon division to the river harbours. Written for them by a scribe because they were illiterate, at Ptolemais Euergetis in 155 AD.

In English machine translation

[11] To Deios and Sabinos, former gymnasiarch, and associates, public bankers. We, the undersigned public animal-keepers (donkey-drivers) of the village of Metrodorou Epoikion, have received from you the sums assigned to us by Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Polemon division, acting as deputy also for the affairs of the strategia of the Themistos and Polemon divisions, for transport charges of wheat, the work having been done from the granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours […] of the produce of year 17, for 28 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, at a price of 8 drachmas per artaba, the total of two hundred twenty-seven, total 227 drachmas. We are: Aphrodisios son of Sokrates, about 40 years old, scar on the thumb, 11 1/6 artabas of wheat. Diodoros son of Mysthes, about 40 years old, without distinguishing marks, 6 1/2 1/3 1/12. Onnophris son of Peteeus, about 55 years old, scar on the right shin, 10 1/4 1/24 artabas of wheat. Total, the aforesaid. Written by E[…]m, since they say they do not know letters. Year 18 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Phamenoth 2.

This is one of a series of receipts pasted together into a continuous roll kept by the state bank. The individual shares add up to about 28 1/3 1/24 artabas, matching the total of 227 drachmas at 8 drachmas per artaba.

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.

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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 · 26. Febr. 155 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

[11] Δείῳ καὶ Σαβείνῳ γεγυμνασιαρχηκότι καὶ μετόχοις δημοσίοις τραπεζίταις. οἱ ὑπογεγραμμένοι κτηνοτρόφοι δημόσιοι κώμης Μητροδώρου ἐποικίου ἀπέχομεν παρʼ ὑμῶν τὰς ἐπισταλείσας ἡμῖν ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως Πολέμωνος μερίδος διαδεχομένου καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν Θεμί…