Receipt for Delivery in Kind
Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41993
Receipt for chaff delivered on behalf of Karanis TM 41993unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording the delivery of 120 pounds of chaff on behalf of the village of Karanis, signed by Sarapion, a receiver of goods. It dates to the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[…] […]
[on behalf of the] village of Kar[anis] […]
[…] indiction, [of chaff, pounds]
one hundred twenty, [120].
I, Sarapion, re[ceiver, have signed].
The commodity (chaff) and the unit (pounds) are restored, following the catalogue description. The receiver (apodektes) was the official who took in tax payments in kind, here probably at a harbor in the Herakleopolite or Memphite nome.
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.1.229
[…]…[…] ὑπὲρ κώμης Καρανίδος[…] […]της ἰνδικτίονοςἀχύρου λίτρας ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι, ρκ. Σαραπίων ἀποδέκτης σεσημείωμαι.