Receipt from public and private donkey-drivers of several villages in the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome, acting through their representative Chrysas, acknowledging payment of 408 drachmas from the public bank of Dios and Sabinus for transporting wheat and barley from the granaries to the harbours. It lists each driver and the amount carried and is dated 23 February 155 AD.
In English machine translation
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To Dios and Sabinus, former gymnasiarch, and partners, public bankers.
We the undersigned public and private animal-keepers (donkey-drivers) of the following villages, through Chrysas our appointed representative, have received from you the sums assigned to us by Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the division of Polemon, also acting as deputy for the strategia of the two divisions, which we asked to be assigned to us for
transport charges of wheat and barley which we brought down from the granaries of the division of Polemon
to the harbours, the work having been done
under the strategos Demetrios, of the produce
of year 17: 49 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat at 8 drachmas per artaba, making
399 drachmas 2 obols of silver; 1 1/2 1/3 artabas of barley at 480 drachmas per 100 artabas,
making 8 drachmas 4 obols; in all
408 drachmas of silver. They are: of Mouchis, public (keepers):
Pachnoubis son of Pachnoubis, 5 1/6 artabas of wheat.
Of Areos, public: Ares son of Orsenouphis, 1 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat.
Ke[…] kom(…): Onnophris son of Herakleos, 1 1/2 1/4 artabas of wheat.
Panouris son of Panouris, 1 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat. Harmiysis
son of Hatres, 2 1/2 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat. Orsenouphis son of Titheis, 1 2/3 1/8 artabas of wheat.
Of Kerkesoucha, public: Auleris, father unknown, 1 1/6 1/24 artabas of wheat.
Ares son of […]is, 6 1/2 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, 1/3 1/24 artaba of barley.
Pa[…]ris also called Panesneus son of Petesouchos,
3 1/2 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, 1/3 1/24 artaba of barley. Ptolemaios son of Papontos,
2/3 artaba of wheat, 1/3 artaba of barley. Aurelis, father unknown, from Areos,
5 1/2 artabas of wheat, 1/3 1/24 artaba of barley. Onnophris son of Herakl(…), 3 1/2 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat,
1/3 1/24 artaba of barley. Private (keepers), likewise: Diogenes son of Theon,
13 artabas of wheat.
I, Chrysas, the appointed representative, have received
the four hundred and eight drachmas of silver. Total 408 drachmas, as stated above.
Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
Mecheir 29.
One of a series of receipts pasted together into a roll (tomos synkollesimos) kept by the public bank. The 'harbours' (hormoi) were the river ports from which grain was shipped onward.
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.