Receipt for Delivery in Kind
Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41996
Receipt for deliveries of chaff TM 41996unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century/(early) IVth century A.D.
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Fragment of a receipt or delivery record for chaff, listing quantities in pounds: 360 pounds on one day and 120 pounds on the 18th, delivered by the same person. It dates to the late 3rd or early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[… ? lines lost …]
360 pounds,
total 360 pounds.
And on the 18th the same […]
120 pounds of chaff, total 120 pounds.
The numbers written out in words are restored from the numeral totals. The object description says the chaff came from Karanis, but this text gives no place name.
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.1.231
[… ? lines lost …] λίτρας τριακοσίας ἑξήκοντα, γίνονται λίτραι τξ. καὶ τῇ ιη ὁ αὐτὸς …[…] ἀχύρου λίτρας ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι, γίνονται λίτραι ρκ.