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Receipt issued to the public bank of Deios, Sabinos and partners by a group of animal-drivers of the village of Moucheis, through their representative Didymos, for 419 drachmas 2 obols paid for carrying wheat of year 17 from the granaries of the Polemon division to the river harbours. It lists each driver and the amount of wheat he transported, and was written in the Arsinoite nome in February 155.
The term ktenotrophoi means keepers of pack animals hired for grain transport. This receipt is one column of a roll of such receipts pasted together by the bank.
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
[6] Δείωι καὶ Σαβείνωι γεγυμνασιαρχηκότι καὶ μετόχοις δημοσίοις τραπεζίταις. οἱ ὑπογεγραμμένοι κτηνοτρόφοι κώμης Μούχεως διὰ Διδύμου ἀποσυσταθέντος ἀπέχομεν παρʼ ὑμῶν τὰς ἐπισταλείσας ἡμῖν ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως Πολέμωνος μερίδος διαδεχομένου καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγί…
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