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Receipt of camel-keepers of Dionysias for wheat transport charges TM 10455Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)155 CE

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Receipt from the public camel-keepers of Dionysias, acting through their representative Horion, to the public bankers Sabinus and Dios for 1,040 drachmas paid as transport charges for 130 artabas of wheat from the harvest of year 17. The payment was authorized by the royal scribe Ptolemaios as acting strategos; it was issued in the Arsinoite nome in AD 155.

In English machine translation

[16] To Sabinus and Dios and their partners, public bankers. We, the undersigned public camel-keepers from the village of Dionysias, through Horion our appointed representative, have received from you the sums ordered to be paid to us by Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the division of Polemon, acting as deputy for the office of strategos of the divisions of Themistos and Polemon, for transport charges for wheat, the work having been done on the produce of year 17 of the division of Polemon, for 130 artabas, at a price of 8 drachmas for each artaba, amounting in total to 1,040 drachmas of silver, total 1,040 drachmas. They are: Papos son of Koilis, 106 1/2 1/3 1/8 artabas of wheat. Henation son of Henation, 9 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat. Onnophris son of […]eritheit, 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat. Pasys son of Ammonios, 12 1/2 1/4 artabas of wheat. Total, the aforesaid. I, Horion also called Matronianus, have received the 1,040 drachmas of silver, total 1,040 drachmas. Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Phamenoth 4.

This is column 16 of a roll of receipts pasted together by the state bank. The rate of 8 drachmas per artaba seems high for transport and may reflect the editors' reading of the numeral.

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)

[16] Σαβείνωι καὶ Δείωι καὶ μετόχοις δημοσίοις τραπεζίταις. οἱ ὑπογεγραμμένοι δημόσιοι καμηλοτρόφοι ἀπὸ κώμης Διονυσιάδος διὰ Ὡρίωνος ἀποσυσταθέντος ἀπέχομεν παρʼ ὑμῶν τὰς ἐπισταλείσας ἡμῖν ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως Πολέμωνος μερίδος διαδεχομένου τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν …