One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41947

Receipt for delivery of seven baskets of chaff on behalf of Karanis TM 41947unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of Egypt303/304 A.D.

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Fragmentary ostracon receipt recording that Paout[…] and Harpalos delivered seven baskets (sarganai), apparently of chaff, on behalf of the village of Karanis. It dates to AD 303/304, the 20th and 12th regnal years of the Tetrarchy.

In English machine translation

Delivered by Paout[…] and Harpalos […] on behalf of the village of Karanis […] 7 sarganai […] of year 20 and year 12 […]

A sargane is a woven basket used as a transport measure, here apparently for chaff. The double year (20 and 12) reflects the regnal years of the senior and junior Tetrarchic emperors.

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.1.188

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 303/304 A.D.

παρήνεγκον Παοῦτ […] καὶ Ἅρπαλος […] ὑπὲρ κώμης Καρανίδος[…] σαργάνας ἑπτὰ […] κ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους […]