Granary receipt
This ostracon contains a receipt for grain from the thesaurus.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 24848
Granary receipt for wheat delivered by Panameus son of Petechonsis TM 24848Thebes16 June 214 CE
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
An ostracon receipt from the public granary of the metropolis at Thebes recording wheat deliveries in the name of Panameus son of Petechonsis, in several instalments in the summer of AD 214 (year 23 of Caracalla). The granary official Pol(…) signed for the amounts.
In English machine translation
Measured into the granary of the metropolis, from the produce of year 23 of Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Caesar the lord, Pauni 22,
for the South (quarter), in the name of Panameus son of Petechonsis, grandson of Psenchonsis,
2 … of wheat; another (payment), Epeiph 20, in the name of the same,
… total 3 1/2 1/8 artabas of wheat. I, Pol(…), have signed: three and one half and one eighth artabas of wheat, total 3 1/2 1/8 artabas of wheat. Further, Mesore 4,
for the South (quarter), in the name of Panameus son of Petechonsis the younger, grandson of Psenchonsis,
1/2 1/3 1/48 artaba of wheat, and for Charax, Pasemis, 2/3 1/48 artaba of wheat, total 1 1/2 1/24 artabas of wheat. I, Pol(…), have signed.
One record dates the text to 16 June 214, matching the first payment (Pauni 22), while another gives 28 July 214, the date of the last payment (Mesore 4). 'South' and 'Charax' are names of districts of Thebes for which the payments were credited.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Granary Receipt). 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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μέτρημα θησαυροῦ μητροπόλεως γενήματος κγ ἔτους Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Σεουήρου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Παῦνι κβ ὑπὲρ Νότου ὀνόματος Παναμέως Πετεχώνσιος Ψενχώνσιος πυροῦ δύο … ἄλλο Ἐπεὶφ κ ὀνόματος τοῦ αὐτοῦ … γίνονται πυροῦ γ 𐅵 η. Πολ σεσημείωμαι πυροῦ τρεῖς ἥμισυ ὄγδοον, γίνοντ…