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Receipt for transport charges on public wheat carried to the harbours TM 10452Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)155 CE

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Receipt from Dioskoros son of Peskamounis, a public animal-keeper of Tamauis, to the public bankers Sabinus and partners for 23 drachmas 4 obols paid as transport charges for carrying state wheat from granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours. It is dated 27 February 155 and belongs to a roll of such receipts from Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[13] To Sabinus and partners, public bankers. Dioskoros son of Peskamounis, public donkey-driver (?) of the village of Tamauis in the division of Herakleides: I have received from you the sums ordered to be paid to me for the transport charges owed to me for the public wheat which I carried down from the granaries of the division of Polemon to the harbours, for the work on the produce of year 17, in total, in accordance with the order whose date is the present month Mecheir 25, for 2 1/2 1/3 1/8 artabas of wheat, at 8 drachmas for each artaba, the total of 23 drachmas 4 obols of silver, total 23 drachmas 4 obols, in full. Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Phamenoth 3. I, Dioskoros, have received the twenty-three drachmas four obols, as stated above.

The title 'public ktenotrophos' denotes a keeper of pack animals working for the state transport service. This receipt is one of many pasted together into a continuous roll kept by the bank.

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

[13] Σαβείνῳ καὶ μετόχοις δημοσίοις τραπεζίταις. Διόσκορος Πεσκαμούνεως δημόσιος κτηνοτρόφος κώμης Ταμαύεως Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος ἀπέχω παρʼ ὑμῶν τὰς ἐπισταλείσας μοι ὑπὲρ τῶν ὀφειλομένων μοι φορέτρων οὗ κατῆξα δημοσίου πυροῦ ἀπὸ θησαυρῶν Πολέμωνος μερίδος εἰς ὅρμους ἀπεργασίας γενή…