Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor by Ptollarion, in the name of Ammonios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42121
Receipt for grain delivered to the granary of Karanis TM 42121probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording grain delivered to the granary at Karanis in the name of Ammonios son of Papeeis, transported by Ptollarion with donkeys. It dates to the late 3rd century AD and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
(Delivered) to the granary of the boundary district (?) of the village of Karanis, from the produce of year […]
in the name of Ammonios son of Papeeis
through Ptollarion, donkeys […]
Year 1, Phamenoth 26.
The abbreviation read as horiodeiktia (boundary district) is uncertain; such receipts usually record grain carried by donkey drivers from village granaries.
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 Transport of Grain). 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.1.361
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος[…]ἔτους ὀνόματος Ἀμμωνίου Παπέειτος διὰ Πτολλαρίονος ὄνο […] ἔτους α Φαμενὼθ κϛ.