Receipt of a shipping contractorAmmoniosAPISberkeley.apis.36(CU)36p.tebt.3.1.8230206;3.1;823p.tebt;3.1;82353995399P.Tebt.0823Ammonios, a shipping contractor, acknowledges the receipt of 5556 artabas for shipment to Alexandria.Margins: top, 2.8 cm.; left, 1.2 cm.; 2.3 cm.21st year of Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 2nd of the Egyptian month Hathyr1275Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., BerkeleyGreek1 papyrus ; 26.2 x 14 cm.Some slight remains of plaster on recto20 lines, on recto along the fibers.Verso empty
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8 Dec. 185 B.C.KerkeAmmoniosBakchiosPolykratesStotoetis, Son of Gemouthes
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APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekShippingKerkeAlexandriaHiera NesosReceipts, Ptolemaic periodRecto.Verso.
In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Arsinoe, gods Philopatores, the 21st year, Hathyr 2. Ammonios, contractor for the kerkouros of Polykrates, of � burden, acknowledges embarkation at the harbor of Kerke for conveyance to Alexandria to the royal granary, from the produce of the 20th year, through Bakchios and Ammonios, sitologoi of the store at Hiera Nesos, with the controllers, of five thousand five hundred and fifty-six artabas of olyra paid as rent and for transport by the supplementary vessel, total 5556 art., by measure tested with the bronze measure, and with fair and just smoothing-rod, clean and sifted; and I make no complaint. Stotoetis son of Gemouthes, of Memphis, wrote at the bidding of Ammon(ios), since he is illiterate.