Receipt for Delivery in Kind
Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought by Kanaout to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41970
Receipt for delivery of chaff from Karanis TM 41970unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 4, 336 A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording that Kanaout of the village of Karanis delivered 120 litras of chaff for the tenth indiction, signed by Souchidas. It dates to 4 January 336.
In English machine translation
Tybi 9. Kanaout of the village of Karanis delivered, for the tenth indiction, 120 (one hundred twenty) litras of chaff, 120.
I, Souchidas, have signed.
The village name is written Keranis, a variant spelling of Karanis. One record places the delivery at an unknown harbor in the Herakleopolite or Memphite nome; chaff (achyron) was used as fuel and in brickmaking.
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.1.208
Τῦβι θ παρήνεγκε Καναοῦτ κώμης Κερανίδος δεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος ἀχύρου λίτρας ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι, ρκ. Σουχιδᾶς σεσημείωμαι.