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A receipt addressed to the public bankers Deios and Sabeinos by the public animal-keepers of Narmouthis, acknowledging payment of transport charges for wheat carried from the granaries of the Polemon division to the river harbours. The payment was authorized by the royal scribe Ptolemaios, and a damaged list of individual drivers and quantities follows.
The 'public animal-keepers' (ktenotrophoi) were donkey-drivers who carried state grain to the harbours. The fractional quantities in the list are uncertain readings, and the total sum 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 Receipt for the Payment of Grain Transport Fees). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Δείῳ καὶ Σαβείνῳ γεγυμνασιαρχηκότι καὶ μετόχοις δημοσίοις τραπεζίταις οἱ ὑπογεγραμμένοι δημόσιοι κτηνοτρόφοι κώμης Ναρμούθεως διὰ Πρείμου ἀποσυσταθέντοςἀπέχομεν παρʼ ὑμῶν τὰς ἐπισταλείσας ἡμῖν ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως Πολέμωνος μερίδος διαδεχομένου καὶ τὴν στρατηγίαν τ…
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