List of Donkey-drivers
List of donkey-drivers, with the numbers of donkey-loads of which they are in charge
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41866
List of donkey-drivers with numbers of loads TM 41866probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century/(early) IVth century A.D.
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An ostracon listing men, probably donkey-drivers, each with a number (mostly 1 1/2), probably of donkey-loads, and at the end two sums of 70 drachmas. It dates to the late 3rd or early 4th century AD and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
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[…]tos 1 1/2
Heras son of Kastor 1 1/2
Apollos son of Apollos 1 1/2
Polydeukes and his brother 3
Melas son of Isidoros, through Isidoros 1 1/2
Priskos son of Eudaimon, through
Melas 1 1/2
Herakles son of Patermouthis 1 1/2
Paas son of Satabous 2
[He]ras son of Atisios 70 drachmas
[…] 70 drachmas
The identification of the men as donkey-drivers and of the figures as donkey-loads comes from the catalogue description; the text itself gives only names and numbers. The symbol read as 1/2 follows the usual interpretation of the fraction sign.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Donkey-drivers). 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.1.101
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