A receipt issued to the public bankers Deios and Sabinus by the public donkey-drivers of the village of Oxyrhyncha, through their representative Ptolemaios, for 742 drachmas 2 obols paid as transport charges for carrying wheat of year 17 from the granaries of the Polemon division to the river harbours. It lists each driver with the amount of wheat carried and is dated 19 February 155 AD in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
742 drachmas 2 obols of silver.
To Deios and Sabinus, public bankers, the undersigned public animal-keepers of the village of Oxyrhyncha, through Ptolemaios their appointed representative. We have received from you the sums ordered to be paid to us by Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome, also acting in charge of the strategia of the Themistos and Polemon divisions, for transport charges of wheat 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, 92 1/6 1/8 artabas of wheat, at 8 drachmas per artaba, amounting to seven hundred forty-two drachmas 2 obols of silver, total 742 drachmas 2 obols, in accordance with the order.
They are: Theon son of Ptollion 10 artabas of wheat, Heraklas son of Her[…] 3 artabas of wheat, Onnophris son of Mendes 5 1/24 artabas of wheat, Heron son of Mendes and Theon his brother 5 1/12 artabas of wheat, Laros son of Petermouthis 5 1/8 artabas of wheat, Sarapion son of Patron 5 1/6 artabas of wheat, Horos son of Peneoueris and Thonis his brother 3 1/6 1/24 artabas of wheat, Petsiris son of Pekysis 5 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, Theon son of Theon 2 1/6 1/8 artabas of wheat, Mendes son of Pekysis 5 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat, Ptolemaios son of Mendes and Protion son of Sarap(ion) 5 1/4 1/24 artabas of wheat, Peebaus son of Ammonios 5 1/3 artabas of wheat, Papontos son of Petemounis 10 1/6 artabas of wheat, Antiochos son of Thonis and Apynchis son of Akous 3 1/2 1/12 artabas of wheat, Pekysis son of Heron 1/2 1/3 1/24 artaba of wheat, Palbauis son of Satabous and Horos son of Thonis 3 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat, Petsiris son of Heron and Dionysios son of Thonis 3 1/6 1/24 artabas of wheat, Thonis son of Heron 4 1/2 1/12 artabas of wheat, Theon son of Anchophis 5 1/8 artabas of wheat. Total as above.
Year 18 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mecheir 25.
I, Ptolemaios, appointed representative of the above-written public animal-carriers, have received from the public bankers the seven hundred forty-two drachmas 2 obols of silver, total 742 drachmas 2 obols, as stated above.
The listed individual amounts should total 92 1/6 1/8 artabas paid at 8 drachmas per artaba. The 'public animal-keepers' were state-registered donkey-drivers carrying grain to the Nile harbours.
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.