Receipt for Delivery in Kind
Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought by Kanaout to an unknown harbor
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Receipt for chaff delivered from Karanis TM 41969unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of EgyptDecember 14, 336 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording the delivery of 120 pounds of chaff from the village of Karanis, brought by Kanaout son of Ouenaphrios, for the tenth indiction. It is signed by Souchidas and dated Choiak 18 (14 December 336).
In English machine translation
Choiak 18. Village of Karanis,
through Kanaout son of Ouenaphrios,
of the tenth indiction, of chaff, pounds
one hundred twenty, 120 pounds.
I, Souchidas, have signed.
Chaff (achyron) was collected as a tax in kind, used for example to fire baths or bricks and as fodder. One record places the receipt at an unknown harbour in the Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, though the text names Karanis as the delivering village.
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.1.207
Χοίακ ιη κώμης Καρανίδος διὰ Καναοῦτ Οὐεναφρίου δεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος ἀχύρου λίτρας ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι, λίτραι ρκ. Σουχιδᾶς σεσημείωμαι.