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Receipt for harbour dues on cargoes at Syene TM 24201Elephantine oder Syene

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A receipt issued by Antonius Malchaeus, the official in charge of the harbour guard at Syene, to Harpaesis son of Ammonios for harbour dues on cargoes he shipped between Pachon and Mesore. It dates to year 2 of Hadrian (AD 118) and comes from Elephantine or Syene.

In English machine translation

Antonius Malchaeus, who is in charge of the harbour-guard (hormophylakia) of Syene, to Harpaesis son of Ammonios, grandson of Psenthinermogenes, greetings. I have received from you the harbour dues (enormion) on the cargoes which you transported from Pachon to Mesore 30 of year 2 of Hadrian Caesar the lord. Mesore 30. I, Antonius Malchaeus, have received.

The enormion was a harbour tax on goods or cargoes passing through a port; the hormophylakia was the harbour guard service, here farmed out or managed by Antonius.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Reçu pour la taxe portuaire). 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 · Elephantine oder Syene

Ἀντώνιος Μαλχαῖος ὁ ἀσχολούμενος τὴν ὁρμοφυλακίαν Σοήνης Ἁρπαήσι Ἀμμωνίου Ψενθινερμογένου χαίρειν. ἀπέχω παρʼ ἐσοῦ τὸ ἐνόρμιον ἀγωγίων ὧν ἐποιήσου τὰ ἀπὸ Παχὼν ἕως Μεσορὴ λ τοῦ β ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ λ. Ἀντώνιος Μαλχαῖος ἀπέχω.