One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41998

Receipt for a delivery on behalf of Karanis TM 41998unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.

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Opening of a receipt recording a delivery made on behalf of the village of Karanis, dated Mesore 6. The rest of the text, including the commodity and quantity, is lost.

In English machine translation

Mesore 6. We have delivered on behalf of the village of Karanis, in the name of […]

The museum description identifies the commodity as chaff delivered to an unknown harbor in the Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, but this does not survive in the preserved lines.

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.

Receipt for Delivery in Kind

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · O.Mich.inv. 4482 · (Early) IVth century A.D. · unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of Egypt

Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought to an unknown harbor

o.mich.1.233

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · (Early) IVth century A.D.

Μεσορὴ ϛ παρήνεγκον ὑπὲρ κώμης Καρανίδος ὀνόματος [… ? lines lost …]