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Receipt of a camel-keeper for transport charges on public wheat TM 10460Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)155 CE

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Receipt issued by Sarapion son of Maron, a camel-keeper from Dionysias, to the bankers Deios, Sabinus and partners for 201 drachmas 2 obols paid for carrying state wheat from the granaries of the Polemon division to the river harbours. Payment was authorized by the royal scribe Ptolemaios, acting strategos, and the receipt is dated February 155 AD in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[3] To Deios and Sabinus and partners, bankers. Sarapion son of Maron, camel-keeper, of the village of Dionysias. I have received from you the sums ordered to be paid to me by Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Polemon division, also acting as deputy for the office of strategos of the Themistos and Polemon divisions, which I requested to be ordered for transport charges of wheat which I brought down from the granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours, and for the work I carried out under you, of the produce of year 17, 25 1/6 artabas of wheat, at the price per artaba, according to the orders, of 8 drachmas each, making in total 201 drachmas 2 obols of silver, total 201 drachmas 2 obols, in accordance with the order issued through Hermias the scribe. Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mecheir 27. I, Sarapion son of Maron, the camel-keeper, have stated (that I received) the aforesaid 201 drachmas 2 obols. Mecheir 29.

Part of a roll of receipts pasted together by the state bank. The arithmetic (25 1/6 artabas at 8 drachmas) gives 201 drachmas 2 obols, matching the stated total.

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)

[3] Δείωι καὶ Σαβείνῳ καὶ μετόχοις τραπεζίταις. Σαραπίων Μάρωνος καμηλοτρόφος κώμης Διονυσιάδος ἀπέχω παρʼ ὑμῶν τὰς ἐπισταλείσας μοι ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως Πολέμωνος μερίδος διαδεχομένου καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν τῆς Θεμίστου καὶ Πολέμωνος μερίδος ἃς ᾐτησάμην ἐπιστα…