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Receipt of donkey-drivers of Tamauis for transport charges on state wheat TM 11309Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)14. Febr. 155

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Receipt addressed to the public bankers Sabinus and partners by two public animal-keepers of the village of Tamauis, acknowledging payment of 45 drachmas 4 obols in transport charges for carrying state wheat from the granaries of the Polemon division to the river harbours. It was written in the Arsinoite nome in February 155, under Antoninus Pius.

In English machine translation

… To Sabinus and partners, public bankers, from the undersigned public animal-keepers (donkey-drivers) of the village of Tamauis. We have received from you the sums ordered to be paid to us for the transport charges owed to us for the public wheat we brought down from the granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours, for delivery of the produce of year 17, together, in accordance with the order dated the current month Mecheir 18, for 5 1/6 1/24 artabas of wheat, at 8 drachmas per artaba, the total of 45 drachmas 4 obols of silver, total 45 drachmas 4 obols, in full. We are: Pnepheros son of Pnepheros, literate, 2 1/2 1/12 artabas of wheat. Sokmenis son of Onnophris, aged about 45, scar on right knee, 3 1/8 artabas of wheat. Described, he declaring that he does not know letters, through Herak(l…), nomographos. Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mecheir 20. I, Pnepheros son of Pnepheros, have received the forty-five drachmas four obols in full, as stated above.

The text is one column of a roll of such receipts; the opening is lost. The fractional artaba figures are read as 5 1/6 1/24, 2 1/2 1/12 and 3 1/8 from the numeral signs, which sum consistently at 8 drachmas per artaba.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 14. Febr. 155 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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