Receipt for Delivery in Kind
Receipt for delivery of chaff
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41944
Receipt for delivery of chaff on behalf of Karanis TM 41944unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of EgyptAugust 31, 302 A.D.
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Receipt issued by Kopres, a receiving official, for 150 pounds of chaff delivered by Paeianos son of Aphelix on behalf of the village of Karanis. It is dated Thoth 3 of the regnal years 19, 18 and 11 of the Tetrarchs, corresponding to 31 August 302.
In English machine translation
Delivered
by Paeianos son of Aphelix,
for the 18th year, 17th year, 10th year,
on behalf of the village of Karanis,
of chaff one hundred fifty pounds, 150 pounds. I, Kopres,
receiver, have signed.
Year 19, 18, 11,
Thoth 3.
The triple regnal years refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. The physical record places the delivery at an unknown harbor, possibly in the Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, though the chaff was owed by Karanis.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Delivery in Kind). 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.1.185
παρήνεγκεν Παειᾶνος Ἀφήλικος ὑπὲρ ιη ἔτους ιζ ἔτους ι ἔτους ὑπὲρ κώμης Καρανίδος ἀχύρου λίτρας ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα, λίτραι ρν. Κοπρῆς ἀποδέκτης σεσημείωμαι. ἔτους ιθ ιη ια Θὼθ γ.