Receipt addressed to the public bankers Sabinus and associates by two public animal-keepers of Kerkesoucha, Heron and Maximos, acknowledging payment of 71 drachmas 4 obols for transporting royal wheat of year 17. It is dated Mecheir 18 of year 18 of Antoninus Pius (AD 155) at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
To Sabinus and associates, public bankers,
from the undersigned public animal-keepers of the village of Kerkesoucha, Herakleides division. We have received from you the sums assigned to us by Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Polemon division, also acting in charge of the strategia, and Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Themistes division, for transport charges for wheat, the work having been done for the royal (wheat) of the produce of year 17, 8 1/2 1/3 1/8 artabas, at a price of 8 drachmas per artaba, the total being 71 drachmas 4 obols of silver, total 71 drachmas 4 obols. We are:
Heron son of Er[…]is, aged 60, with a scar on the 2nd finger of the [...] hand, [4 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat].
Maximos son of Maximos, literate, 4 1/2 1/24 artabas of wheat.
Described by Marion, notary, since Heron says he does not know letters. Year 18 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mecheir 18.
I, Maximos son of Maximos, have received together with Heron the aforementioned 71 drachmas 4 obols, total 71 drachmas 4 obols.
The individual shares of wheat transported are given per person; Heron's share is restored. Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Polemon division, was also deputising for the strategos.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.