A receipt addressed to the public bankers Deios and Sabinus by Polion, a camel-keeper of Dionysias, acknowledging payment of 148 drachmas for transporting 18 1/2 artabas of state wheat from the granaries of the Polemon division to the river harbours. The payment was authorized by the royal scribe Ptolemaios, and the receipt was written in the Arsinoite capital in February 155.
In English machine translation
To Deios and Sabinus and associates, public bankers,
from Polion son of Hippalos, camel-keeper of the village of Dionysias. I have received from you the drachmas authorized to me by Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Polemon division, also acting as deputy for the strategia of the Themistos and Polemon divisions, which I requested to be authorized, for transport charges on wheat which I carried down from the granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours, for the work I carried out on it, of the produce of year 17 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, 18 1/2 artabas of wheat, at a price per artaba as ordered of 8 drachmas, the total of 148 silver drachmas, total 148 drachmas, in accordance with the authorization. Written by Hermias, notary. Year 18 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mecheir 25.
I, Polion son of Hippalos, have received the aforesaid 148 drachmas.
The rate stated works out to 8 drachmas per artaba; 18 1/2 artabas at 8 drachmas would be 148 drachmas. The royal scribe was temporarily discharging the office of strategos (diadechomenos).
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.