A letter from Deinon to Metrodoros reporting that pure sieved wheat, brought down from Philadelphia to the harbour of Kerke, has been loaded onto a kerkouros boat belonging to Agathokleia, with a capacity of 3600 artabas and an Isis figurehead, for transport to Alexandria. The docket on the back dates it to year 10, Phamenoth 17.
In English machine translation
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Deinon to Metrodoros, greetings. We have loaded onto the kerkouros of Agathokleia, of a capacity of 3600 (artabas), whose emblem is Isis, on which […] for Alexandria, from the grain brought down from Philadelphia to Kerke, from the produce of the […] year, of pure, sieved wheat, […] artabas
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Year 10, Phamenoth 17. Of Deinon […] (the ship) of Agathokleia, on which […] Philadelphia […]
To Metrodoros.
A kerkouros was a type of Nile cargo boat; the emblem (episemon) was its identifying figurehead. The quantity of wheat loaded is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mitteilung über die Verladung von Getreide). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.