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Receipt of animal-keepers of Ibion Argaiou for wheat transport charges TM 10464Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)155 CE

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Receipt addressed to the public bank of Sabinus and partners by the state animal-keepers (donkey drivers) of the village of Ibion Argaiou, acting through their representative Mysthes. They acknowledge payment of 112 drachmas for transporting 14 artabas of wheat from the granaries of the Polemon division at 8 drachmas per artaba. Dated 26 February 155, in the reign of Antoninus Pius, at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[7] To Sabinus, former gymnasiarch, and partners, public bankers. We, the undersigned public animal-keepers of the village of Ibion Argaiou, through Mysthes, appointed as our representative, acknowledge that we have received from you the sums ordered by Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, Polemon division, who is also acting as deputy for the strategia of the two divisions, for transport charges of wheat which we have been declared to have carried down from the granaries of the Polemon division, in the delivery made from the produce of the 17th year, 14 artabas of wheat at 8 drachmas for each artaba, the total of 112 drachmas, total 112 drachmas. We are: Heroides son of Dioskoros, 3 artabas of wheat […] Orseus and Sotas, 3 1/2 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat. E[…]oros also called Sotas, […] 1/24 artaba of wheat. Horos son of Apollonios, […] artabas of wheat. Nephertos son of Apynchis, 1/2 1/3 1/12 artaba of wheat. Horos son of Apollonios, […] artabas of wheat; total, the aforesaid. I, Mysthes, appointed representative by the above-written animal-keepers, have received the aforesaid 112 silver drachmas, total 112 drachmas, as stated above. Year 18 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus (?) the lord Augustus Pius, Phamenoth 2.

This is column 7 of a roll of receipts pasted together for the bank of Sabinus. The emperor's name in the text omits 'Antoninus', but year 18 of Antoninus Pius fits the date of AD 155.

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

[7] Σαβίνῳ γεγυμνασιαρχηκότι καὶ μετόχοις δημοσίοις τραπεζίταις. οἱ ὑπογεγραμμένοι δημόσιοι κτηνοτρόφοι κώμης Ἰβιῶνος Ἀργαίου διὰ Μύσθου ἀποσυσταθέντος ὁμολογοῦμεν ἀπεσχηκέναι παρʼ ὑμῶν τὰς ἐπισταλείσας ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως Ἀρσινοίτου Πολέμωνος μερίδοςδιαδεχομένου …