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Receipt from a roll of receipts issued to the state bank at Ptolemais Euergetis, recording payment of 240 silver drachmas at 20 drachmas a month each to four men, probably guards, whose names, ages and identifying scars are listed. The men were illiterate and the receipt was written for them by an appointed scribe on 26 February 155.
This is column 12 of a composite roll of receipts pasted together, addressed to the state bank of Sabinos and partners. The opening lines naming the service and the period are lost; 240 drachmas at 20 a month for four men implies a three-month period.
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 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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