Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor by Manes
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42126
Receipt for donkey transport of grain to the granary of Karanis TM 42126probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording that Manes son of Maron, from the Herakleopolite nome, delivered seventeen donkey-loads of grain to the granary of the boundary district of Karanis for year 1. It is dated year 2, Mecheir 11, in the late 3rd century AD, probably at Karanis.
In English machine translation
(Delivered) to the granary of the boundary district of Karanis, (for) year 1: Manes son of Maron, of the Herakleopolite, seventeen donkey(-loads), total 17.
Year 2, Mecheir 11.
The abbreviation ὁρι( ) is taken as horiodeiktia, the boundary district attached to the village granary; the term has no exact English equivalent. The grain belongs to the harvest of year 1 though the receipt is dated in year 2.
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.1.365
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος α ἔτους Μάνης Μάρωνος Ἡρακλεοπολίτου ὄνους δεκαεπτά, γίνονται ιζ. ἔτους β Μεχεὶρ ια.