A ship captain's receipt addressed to Eudaimon, a granary official of Thmoisepho in the toparchy of Paomis, recording day-by-day loadings of public wheat from the harvest of Hadrian's tenth year, delivered in numbered loads of sacks through two supercargoes from Paomis. It dates to Choiak 9 of Hadrian's twelfth year (7 December 127) in the Oxyrhynchite nome.
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[…] captain of boats […] of a burden of […] artabas. 20 (?) To Eudaimon […] sitologos (?) of Thmoisepho in the toparchy of Paomis and its region, greetings. Account of the transport of the wheat received by me from the produce of the tenth year of Trajan Hadrian Caesar the lord, wheat pure, unadulterated, free of earth and barley, sieved and winnowed, by the public half-artaba measure, by the prescribed measurement, through the supercargoes Ammonios son of Ammonios and Papontos son of Papontos from Paomis and their associates. Year twelve of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Choiak 9. It is as follows:
1st load, 30 sacks, 90 artabas
2nd load, 9 sacks, 27 artabas
3rd load, 24 sacks, 72 artabas
4th load, 32 sacks, 96 artabas
5th load, 11 sacks, 33 artabas
6th load, 9 sacks, 27 artabas
7th load, 36 sacks, 108 artabas
8th load, 13 sacks, 39 artabas
9th load, 11 sacks, 33 artabas
10th load, 6 sacks, 18 artabas
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15th load, 40 sacks, 120 artabas
16th load, 9 sacks, 27 artabas
17th load, 44 sacks, 132 artabas
18th load, 12 sacks, 36 artabas
Total for the day, with the half-artaba and the prescribed one-hundredth, 1,056 artabas of wheat.
10th, likewise:
1st load, 30 sacks, 90 artabas
2nd load, 9 sacks, 27 artabas
3rd load, 38 sacks, 114 artabas
4th load, 6 sacks, 18 artabas
5th load, 22 sacks, 66 artabas
6th […]
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Total for the day, with the half-artaba and the prescribed one-hundredth, 1,161 artabas of wheat.
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Total for the day, with the half-artaba and the prescribed one-hundredth, 1,2[…]1 artabas of wheat.
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Total for the day, with the half-artaba and the prescribed one-hundredth, 1,314 artabas of wheat.
[…] 13th (?) […]
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Total for the day, with the half-artaba and the prescribed one-hundredth, […] hundred and 14 artabas of wheat.
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Total for the day, with the half-artaba and the prescribed one-hundredth, [1],47[…] artabas of wheat.
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Total for the day, with the half-artaba and the prescribed one-hundredth, […]20[…] artabas of wheat.
[…] 24 (?)
Each sack held 3 artabas; daily totals include a surcharge of a half-artaba and the prescribed one percent. 'Supercargoes' (epiploi) were the agents accompanying the cargo on board.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Shipper’s Receipt for Convoys of Grain). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.