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Receipt of a camel-keeper for grain paid as transport charges TM 9984Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)ca. 139

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A receipt in which Taouetis, a camel-keeper of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome, acting with her guardian Tesenouphis, acknowledges receiving grain from the granary officials of Dionysias as payment owed to her for transporting public grain. The debt had been certified by the former strategos Claudius Cerealis and confirmed by his successor Dion, around AD 139.

In English machine translation

To the measurers (?) of the Themistos division, Taouetis [...], camel-keeper, of the village of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Herakleides division, with her guardian Tesenouphis son of Tesenouphis. I acknowledge that I have had measured out to me and have received from the sitologoi of the village of Dionysias, from the granary of the village, the (artabas) which Dion, strategos of the same division, declared that his predecessor as strategos, Claudius Cerealis, had written were owed to me for the transport charges of the public grain which I brought down from the [villages] of the Themistos division [...] [...]

The opening word is read as a form of 'measurers' (ekmetretai), though the address is odd; the end of the text, including the amount, is lost. 'Phoretra' are freight charges paid to transporters of state grain.

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 Corn 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 139 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

ἐγμετρηταῖς Θεμίστου μερίδος Ταουῆτις Τ[…]η[…]…ς καμηλοτρόφος κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος μετὰ κυρίου Τεσενούφιος τοῦ Τεσενούφιος. ὁμολογῶ μεμετρῆσθαι καὶ ἀπεσχηκέναι παρὰ σιτολόγων κώμης Διονυσιάδος ἀπὸ θησαυροῦ τῆς κώμης ἃς Δίων ὁ ἐμαυτῆς 3της3 μερίδος στρατηγὸς ἐ…