One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42136

Receipt for sacks of grain delivered to the sitologoi of Karanis TM 42136probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D.

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A short ostracon receipt recording the delivery of 6 sacks of grain from the harvest of a given year to the granary officials (sitologoi) of Karanis, carried through a man named Syrion. It is dated Choiak 11 of year 3, in the 3rd century AD, probably at Karanis.

In English machine translation

(Delivered to the) sitologoi of Karanis, from the produce of year 2 (?), 6 sacks […] through Syrion. Year 3, Choiak 11.

The sitologoi were the officials in charge of the public granaries; the year of the harvest (year 2) is a restoration. The catalogue describes the text as a receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbour.

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.

Receipt for Transport of Grain

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · O.Mich.inv. 4591 · IIIrd century A.D. · probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor

o.mich.1.375

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

σιτολόγων Καρανίδος γενήματοςβ ἔτους σάκκους ϛ …[…] διὰ Συρίωνος. ἔτους γ Χοίακ ια.