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Receipt from seven tower-guards of Ptolemais Hormou to the public bankers Sabinus, Deios and partners for their wages for the month of Mecheir, totalling 248 drachmas. Each guard is listed with his tower, age, identifying scar and pay; it was written for them by a scribe because they were illiterate, in AD 155.
Magdolophylakes were guards stationed at watchtowers (magdola); this receipt is one of several pasted together into a roll at the state bank. A nomographos was a contract scribe who wrote on behalf of illiterate parties.
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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