List of Donkey-Drivers
List of donkey-drivers and of their donkeys, or of loads of some material brought by them
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42094
List of donkey-drivers with numbers of donkeys or loads TM 42094probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century/(early) IVth century A.D.
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An ostracon listing personal names, each followed by a small number, probably donkey-drivers with the number of their donkeys or loads delivered. It dates to the late 3rd or early 4th century AD and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
Achillas 1
Saymaous 3
Sairenis 2
Theonas 1
Demetris 1
Papaiei 1
Palemon 1
Pareous 1
Ptolas 1
[Priskos 1]
[through Atisis 1]
[… from the hare-seller (?) Hatres]
Euhremairos 1
Seuthes son of Ammonios 1
Seuthes son of Heras 1
[column 2]
[Sarapion […]]
Piton 1
Pak[…]is 1
Paionios 1
Pau[…] 1
Makreinos 2 1
slave of Andr[…] 1
[Chairemon 1]
Dios 1
Laios 1
Ounaphris 1
Ptolemaios 1
[Abaous 1]
Ptolemaios 1
Pantelis 1
slave of Dios 1
Ouenaphris 1
Melas 1
Heron 1
Ptolemaios
another 1
Several entries are enclosed in square brackets in the edition, apparently lines struck through or lost. The meaning of the numbers (donkeys or loads) is not stated in the text; 'hare-seller' renders the rare word lagopratēs.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Donkey-Drivers). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
List of Donkey-Drivers
List of donkey-drivers and of their donkeys, or of loads of some material brought by them
o.mich.1.336
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