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Receipt of a tower-guard for two months' wages from the public bank TM 10453Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)155 CE

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Receipt by Ptollas son of Peteeus, a tower-guard of the village of Soureos, acknowledging payment from the public bank of Sabinus and partners of 48 silver drachmas as wages for the months Tybi and Mecheir. It was written on his behalf by a scribe because he was illiterate, at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome on 28 February 155.

In English machine translation

[14] To Sabinus and partners, public bankers. Ptollas son of Peteeus, grandson of Ptollas, from the village of Soureos, tower-guard of the (tower) on the boundary of Soureos and of the guard of the island tower: I have received from you the (drachmas) assigned to me for wages for the two months Tybi and Mecheir of the present 18th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, at the rate of 24 (drachmas) each month for each person, making in total forty-eight silver drachmas, total 48 drachmas. Ptollas, about 57 years old, with a scar on the thumb. Written, since he says he does not know letters, by Herakleides, nomographos. Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Phamenoth 4.

This is one of a series of receipts pasted together into a continuous roll kept by the bank. A magdolophylax was a guard stationed at a watchtower (magdolon); a nomographos was a contract-writing scribe.

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

[14] Σαβείνῳ καὶ μετόχοις δημοσίοις τραπεζίταις. Πτολλᾶς Πετεεῦτος τοῦ Πτολλᾶ ἀπὸ κώμης Σούρεως μαγδωλοφύλαξ τοῦ ἐπὶ συνορίας Σούρεως καὶ φυλακῆς νήσου μαγδώλου, ἀπέχω παρʼ ὑμῶν τὰς ἐπισταλείσας μοι ὑπὲρ ὀψωνίου μηνῶν δύο Τῦβι καὶ Μεχεὶρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ιη ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος …