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Receipt of a public animal-keeper for transport charges on public wheat TM 11311Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)19. Febr. 155

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Receipt issued by Syros son of Euporos, a public animal-keeper from Tamauis in the Arsinoite nome, to the public bankers Sabinus and associates, acknowledging payment of 21 drachmas for transporting public wheat from the Polemon division granaries to the river harbours. It is dated 19 February 155 AD at Ptolemais Euergetis.

In English machine translation

To Sabinus and associates, public bankers, from Syros son of Euporos, public donkey-driver (?) of the village of Tamauis, Herakleides division. I have received from you the sums assigned to me on account of the transport charges owed to me for the public wheat which I carried down from the granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours, for the work on the produce of year 17, in total, in accordance with the order dated the present month Mecheir 24, for 2 1/2 1/8 artabas of wheat, at 8 drachmas per artaba, the total being 21 drachmas of silver, total 21 drachmas, in full. Syros, aged about 35, scar on the right hand. Described by Herak(leides?), notary. Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mecheir 25.

The term ktenotrophos, literally 'animal-keeper', designates a public transporter using pack animals, probably donkeys. The arithmetic (2 5/8 artabas at 8 drachmas = 21 drachmas) checks out.

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

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