Receipt issued to the public bank of Sabinus and associates by animal drivers of the village of Ibion Argaiou, acting through their representative Diodoros, for 211 drachmas 3 obols paid as transport charges for carrying wheat and barley of year 17 from the granaries to the harbours. It is dated 1 March AD 155, in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
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To Sabinus and associates, public bankers.
We, the undersigned public donkey-drivers (?) of the village of Ibion Argaiou, through Diodoros our appointed representative, have received from you the sums assigned to us by Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the division of Polemon, who is also acting for the strategia of the divisions of Themistes and Polemon, for transport charges of wheat and barley which we declared we had carried down from the granaries of the division to the harbours of delivery, under the strategos Demetrios also called Harpokration, from the produce of year 17: 26 artabas of wheat, 3/4 artaba of barley, total 26 artabas of wheat, 3/4 artaba of barley, at the rate of 8 drachmas for each artaba of wheat and of 480 drachmas per hundred artabas of barley, altogether 211 drachmas 3 obols of silver; total 211 drachmas 3 obols.
We are: K[…]bes, 8 1/2 1/3 artabas of wheat, 1/4 artaba of barley. Horion son of Marinus, […] artabas of wheat, 1/4 artaba of barley. Protas son of Pete[…] […]
We, the aforementioned donkey-drivers (?) of the village of Ibion Argaiou, through Diodoros our appointed representative, acknowledge that we have received the 211 drachmas 3 obols of silver, total 211 drachmas 3 obols, as stated above.
Year 18 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Phamenoth 5.
This is column 19 of a roll of receipts pasted together by the bank. The term for the drivers (ktenotrophoi, 'animal keepers') is largely restored.
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.