Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain of Hermou polis brought to an unknown harbor by a Maron in the name of a Horion son of Ision
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 30838
Receipt for transport of nine sacks of grain from Hermou polis TM 30838probably Hermou polis, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording the transport by donkey of nine sacks of grain from the harvest of year 1 of the village of Hermou polis, carried with the donkeys of Karanis. The delivery was credited to Horion son of Ision and made through Maron, dated Mecheir 28 of year 2, in the late 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
Of the produce of year 1, of Hermou polis,
by the donkeys of Karanis,
from Hermou polis, with the donkeys of Euergetis (?)
Ision (?), in the name of Horion son of Ision, through Maron, sacks
nine, total 9.
Year 2, Mecheir 28.
The transport by donkey was a compulsory public service (liturgy) owed by villages. The phrase 'Euergetis Isiou' in lines 3-4 is obscure; one record gives Hermou polis rather than Karanis as the place.
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.4.1133
γενήματος α ἔτους Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως διὰ κτηνῶν Καρανίδος ἀπὸ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως μετὰ κτηνῶν Εὐεργέτιδος Ἰσίου ὀνόματος Ὡρίωνος Ἰσίωνος διὰ Μάρωνος σάκκοι ἐννέα, γίνονται θ. ἔτους β Μεχεὶρ κη.