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Receipt of guards of Mouchis for wages paid by the public bank TM 10459Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)155 CE

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A receipt addressed to the public bank of Sabinus and associates, in which guards of the village of Mouchis acknowledge receiving 200 drachmas in wages for two men for five months (Thoth to Tybi) at 20 drachmas per man per month. Four illiterate guards are described by name, age and identifying scars, and the receipt was written by a notary, Herakleides, on 23 February 155 in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[column 2] To Sabinus and associates, public bankers. We, the undersigned guards (andraphylakes) of the village of Mouchis, acknowledge that we have received from you the sums ordered to be paid to us as wages, which we requested and are being ordered to receive, for 2 men, two men, from Thoth to Tybi of the present 18th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, 5 months, at the rate of 20 drachmas for each man each month, making a total of two hundred silver drachmas, total 200 drachmas. They are: Sotas […] son of Sambat(?), his mother being […]sas, about 20 years old, scar on forehead. Pascheis son of Pachnoubis son of Pascheus, his mother being […]ach, about 20 years old, scar on forehead. Pa[…] son of Pachnoubis son of Pascheus, his mother being […]tache, about 25 years old, scar on right lower abdomen. Nilos, fatherless, his mother being Soteris, about 25 years old, scar on right lower abdomen. They were described, declaring that they do not know letters, through Herakleides, nomographos. Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mecheir 29.

Part of a roll of receipts pasted together from the bank of Sabinus. The text speaks of wages for two men, yet four men are listed, perhaps as joint signatories; 'nomographos' is a village scribe who drew up documents for the illiterate.

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

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