A receipt addressed to the public banker Sabinus and his partners by state animal-drivers of the village of Dikaiou, acknowledging payment of 174 drachmas 2 obols for transporting wheat from the granaries of the Polemon division to the river harbours. The drivers are listed with identifying descriptions, and Herakleides son of Heron confirms receipt in 155 AD.
In English machine translation
To Sabinus and partners, public bankers,
from the undersigned public animal-keepers (donkey-drivers) of the village of Dikaiou. We have received from you
the sums which Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Polemon division, also acting as deputy for the strategia of the two divisions, instructed to be paid out to us for transport charges on the wheat which we brought down from the granaries of the Polemon division to the harbours, from the produce of year 17 of Antoninus Caesar the lord,
the work on it having been done, 21 1/6 1/8 artabas of wheat, at the rate of 8 drachmas per artaba, totalling one hundred
seventy-four drachmas of silver, two obols,
making 174 drachmas 2 obols. They are:
Herakleides son of Heron, 15 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat.
Ischyras and Theon, 6 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat.
Ischyras son of Isis(?), aged 60, scar on the first finger of the left hand.
Theon the elder, son of Kastor, aged 22, scar […].
Described by Herak(l…), notary. I, Herakleides son of Heron, have received
together with Ischyras and Theon the aforesaid
one hundred seventy-four drachmas of silver
2 obols.
Year 18 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mecheir
25.
The 'public animal-keepers' (ktenotrophoi) were village carriers liable for state grain transport. The listed shares (15 1/3 1/24 and 6 1/3 1/12) sum to the 21 1/6 1/8 artabas stated.
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.