Receipt for Delivery in Kind
Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought by Palemon and Abok to an unknown harbor
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Receipt for chaff delivered by animals of Karanis TM 41978unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of EgyptAugust 7, 342 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that Palemon and Abok delivered 120 pounds of chaff, carried by the pack animals of the village of Karanis, as a payment in kind for the 16th indiction. It was signed by Ision on 7 August 342.
In English machine translation
Mesore 14.
Delivered by Palemon and Abok, by means of the pack animals of the village of Karanis, for the 16th indiction: 120 pounds of chaff, total 120 pounds.
I, Ision, have signed.
1st (indiction) of the new (cycle).
Chaff (achyron) was collected as a tax in kind, often for fuel or military use. The final line seems to refer to the first year of a new indiction cycle, and the date of 342 depends on that.
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.1.215
Μεσορὴ ιδ παρήνεγκον Παλήμων καὶ Ἀβὸκ διὰ κτηνῶν κώμης Καρανίδος ὑπὲρ ἑκκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος ἀχύρου λίτρας ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι, γίνονται λίτραι ρκ . Ἰσίων σεσημείωμαι. α νέας.