Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor by Manes
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42124
Receipt for grain transported by donkey from the Karanis granary TM 42124probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century A.D. (before Diocletian)
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A short ostracon receipt from the Karanis granary recording that four donkey-loads of grain were delivered in the name of Manes son of Maron, using animals of the Arsinoite nome. It is dated Year 1, Pachon 21, in the late 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
Granary of the boundary district (horiodeiktia) of Karanis, in the name of
Manes son of Maron, by the animals
of the Arsinoite: four donkeys, total 4.
Year 1, Pachon 21.
Horiodeiktia was a district-level administrative unit or levy connected with boundary inspection; it has no exact English equivalent. The donkeys are counted as loads carried to a harbour for shipment.
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.1.363
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος ὀνόματος Μάνης Μάρωνος διὰ κτηνῶν Ἀρσινοΐτου ὄνους τέσσαρας, γίνονται δ. α ἔτους Παχὼν κα.