Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought to an unknown harbor by a Publius in the name of a Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 14471
Receipt for donkey transport of grain from the granary of Karanis TM 14471probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptOctober 10, 293 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt from Karanis for a liturgical transport of grain from the village granary, credited to Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios and carried by one donkey through Palemon and Publius. It names the decaproti responsible for the produce of years 7 and 8 and is dated 10 October 293.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, of the produce of year 8 and year 7, of the decaproti Eutonos and Syrion and Melas and Herakleides; in the name of Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, through Palemon, through the animal-drivers of the Oxyrhynchite (?), through Publius: 1 donkey. Year 10 and 9 and 2, Phaophi 13.
The decaproti were local officials liable for collecting grain taxes; the regnal date 'year 10 and 9 and 2' reflects the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. The expansion 'of the Oxyrhynchite' for the animal-drivers is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung für liturgische Transportleistung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.4.1131
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους δεκαπρώτων Εὐτόνος καὶ Συρίωνος καὶ Μέλα καὶ Ἡρακλείδου ὀνόματος Πτολεμαῖος Πτολεμαίου διὰ Παλήμονος διὰ κητνῶν Ὀξυρυγχίτου διὰ Πουπλίου ὄνος α . ἔτους δεκάτου καὶ ἐνάτου καὶ β Φαῶφι ιγ.