Receipt issued by public donkey-drivers of the village of Oxyrhyncha, through their representative Ptolemaios, to the public bankers Deios and Sabinus for 354 drachmas 1 obol paid as transport charges for carrying 73 artabas of state barley from granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours. It lists the individual drivers and their loads and is dated 19 February 155 in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
354 drachmas 1 obol of silver.
To Deios and Sabinus, public bankers, from the undersigned public animal-keepers (donkey-drivers) of the village of Oxyrhyncha, through Ptolemaios, their appointed representative. We have received from you the sums ordered to us by Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Polemon division, acting as deputy also for the strategia of the Themistos and Polemon divisions, for transport charges for barley which we were declared to have carried down from the granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours, the work having been done under him, of the produce of year 17: 73 1/6 1/8 artabas of barley, at the rate of 480 drachmas per 100 artabas, making a total of three hundred fifty-four drachmas one obol of silver, total 354 drachmas 1 obol, in accordance with the order.
They are: Theon son of Ptollion, 9 1/2 1/3 1/24 artabas of barley; Onnophris son of Mendes, 4 1/2 1/12 artabas; Heron son of Mendes and Theon his brother, 3 1/2 1/8 artabas; Theon son of Anchophis, 4 1/6 artabas; Laros son of Petermouthis, 4 1/6 1/24 artabas; Horos son of Peneoueris, 2 1/6 artabas; Sarapion son of Patron, 4 1/3 1/24 artabas; Ptolemaios son of Mendes, 4 1/6 1/24 artabas; Thonis son of Heron, 3 1/6 1/8 artabas; Petsiris son of Pekysis, 4 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas; Mendes his brother, 5 1/12 artabas; Petsiris son of Heron, 3 artabas; Papontos son of Petemounis, 16 1/2 1/12 artabas; Peebaus son of Ammonios, 5 1/6 1/24 artabas; Palbauis son of Satabous, 3 1/12 artabas; Theon son of Theon, 4 artabas. Total, the aforesaid.
Year 18 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mecheir 25.
I, Ptolemaios, appointed representative of the above-written public animal-keepers, have received from the public bankers the three hundred fifty-four drachmas 1 obol of silver, total 354 drachmas 1 obol, as stated above.
The 'public animal-keepers' (demosioi ktenotrophoi) were village donkey-drivers who carried state grain to river harbours for a fixed fee. Oxyrhyncha here is a Fayum village, not the city of Oxyrhynchus.
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.