Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain to an unknown harbor by Seuthes, son of Ptolemaios
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32736
Receipt for chaff delivered by Paesis for the villagers of Karanis TM 32736probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Middle/late) IIIrd century A.D. (February 22/23) (February 22, 277 or 270[?])
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A receipt recording two deliveries of chaff, 120 pounds and then 90 pounds on the same day, made by Paesis son of Demetrios on behalf of the villagers of Karanis for the third indiction. It is signed by Ouranios and dates to 6 September 344 at Karanis.
In English machine translation
Thoth 9.
Paesis son of Demetrios has delivered on behalf of the villagers of Karanis, for the third indiction, of chaff 120 (one hundred twenty) pounds, 120 pounds only. Ouranios.
And on the same day the same man, 90 (ninety) pounds, 90 pounds. I, Ouranios, have signed.
One museum record attached to this text describes a different 3rd-century grain transport receipt and does not apply. Chaff (achyron) was collected as a tax in kind, here measured in Roman pounds (litrai).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt. 2. Chaff). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Receipt for Tax Payment in Kind
Receipt for chaff paid and transported by Paesis
o.mich.3.1015
Θὼθ θ παρήνεγκε Παῆσις Δημητρίου ὑπὲρ κωμητῶν Καρανίδος τρίτης ἰνδικτίονος ἀχύρου λίτρας ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι, λίτρας ρκ, μόνας. Οὐράνιος. καὶ τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὁ αὐτὸς λίτρας ἐνενήκοντα, λίτρας ϙ. Οὐράνιος σεσημείωμαι.