One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42097

List of donkey-drivers furnished through the komarchs TM 42097probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century/(early) IVth century A.D.

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A short ostracon list of men's names, each followed by the number 1, submitted through the village headmen (komarchs). The catalogue describes it as a list of donkey-drivers, probably from Karanis in the Fayum, late 3rd or early 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

Through the komarchs: Ousenouphis 1 Selpous 1 Satabous 1 Atisis 1 Palemon son of Ptollas 1 Pemes 1 Ptollas […] Papeeis […]

Komarchs were village headmen responsible for supplying men and animals for public services. The identification as donkey-drivers comes from the catalogue description and is not stated in the surviving text.

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

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · O.Mich.inv. 4453 · (Late) IIIrd century/(early) IVth century A.D. · probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

List of donkey-drivers

o.mich.1.339

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · (Late) IIIrd century/(early) IVth century A.D. · probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

διὰ τῶν κωμαρχῶν Οὐσενοῦφις α Σελποῦς α Σαταβοῦς α Ἀτῖσις α Παλήμων Πτολλᾶ α Πεμὲς α Πτολλᾶς […] Παπέεις[…]