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Receipt of a camel-keeper for transport charges on public wheat TM 10454Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)155 CE

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A receipt in which Chairemon, a public camel-keeper of Soknopaiou Nesos, acknowledges receiving 65 drachmas 2 obols from the state bank of Sabinus and partners for transporting 8 1/6 artabas of wheat from the harvest of year 17. It is dated 28 February 155 under Antoninus Pius and belongs to a roll of such receipts from the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[15] To Sabinus, former gymnasiarch, and his partners, public bankers. Chairemon son of Harphaesis, public camel-keeper of the village of Soknopaiou Nesos: I have received from you the sum ordered to be paid to me by Ptolemaios, royal scribe, who is also acting for Polemon in the strategia of the two divisions, for transport charges on wheat from the delivery carried out under him, of the produce of year 17, 8 1/6 artabas of wheat, at 8 drachmas per artaba, the total being 65 drachmas 2 obols, total 65 drachmas 2 obols. I, Chairemon, the aforementioned camel-keeper, have received the aforesaid 65 silver drachmas 2 obols, total 65 drachmas 2 obols. Year 18 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Augustus Pius, Phamenoth 4.

The royal scribe Ptolemaios was deputizing for the strategos Polemon of the two divisions of the nome. This is column 15 of a roll of receipts pasted together for the bank's records.

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)

[15] Σαβείνῳ τῶν γεγυμνασιαρχηκότων καὶ μετόχοις δημοσίοις τραπεζίταις. Χαιρήμων Ἁρφαήσεως δημόσιος καμηλοτρόφος κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου ἀπέχω παρʼ ὑμῶν τὰς ἐπισταλείσας μοι ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως Πολέμονος διαδεχομένου καὶ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν τῶν δύο μερίδων, ὑπὲρ φο…