List of Donkey-Drivers
List of donkey-drivers
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42096
List of donkey-drivers TM 42096probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century/(early) IVth century A.D.
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An ostracon listing seven men, mostly identified by their fathers' names, one of them a slave, each followed by the figure 1. It is catalogued as a list of donkey-drivers, probably from Karanis in the late 3rd or early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
Demetrios son of Hatres, 1
Salios son of Serapion, 1
Sotas son of Damas, 1
Dioskoros son of Koles, 1
Paleis son of Paesis, 1
The slave Lelios, 1
Pales son of Pales, 1
The text itself does not mention donkeys; the identification as donkey-drivers comes from the catalogue. The figure 1 after each name probably counts one donkey or one load per man.
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.
o.mich.1.338
Δημήτριος Ἁτρῆ α Σάλιος Σεραπίωνος α Σώτας Δαμᾶς α Διόσκορος Κολῆς α Παλεῖ Παιήσιος α δοῦλος Λέλιος α Παλῆς Παλῆς α