Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor by Ptollas
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42132
Receipt for donkey transport from the granary of Hiera Nikolaou TM 42132probably Hiera Nikolaou, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording that two donkeys, registered to Ptollas son of Neilos and belonging to the animal transport of Narmouthis, carried a load (presumably grain) for the granary of the village of Hiera Nikolaou. It is dated Year 2, Pharmouthi 24, in the late 3rd century AD, probably at Hiera Nikolaou in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Hiera Nikolaou, by way of the animals of Narmouthis, in the name of Ptollas son of Neilos: two donkeys,
total 2.
Year 2, Pharmouthi 24.
Such receipts record the number of donkey loads of grain carried from a village granary to a harbor for shipment; the destination is not named here. The regnal year does not identify the emperor.
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.1.371
θησαυροῦ κώμης Ἱερᾶς Νεικολάου διὰ κτηνῶν Ναρμούθεως ὀνόματος Πτολλᾶ Νείλου ὄνους δύο, γείνονται β. ἔτους β Φαρμοῦθι κδ.