Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor by Nilos in the name of Ammonios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42144
Receipt for grain transport by donkeys from the Karanis granary TM 42144probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century A.D. (concerns the crop of 284, 286, or 298 A.D.)
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An ostracon receipt from the granary of Karanis recording grain from the crop of a regnal year 2, credited to Ammonios son of Papeis and delivered through Nilos under the dekaprotos Hermeias. The grain was carried by donkeys requisitioned from the Kynopolite nome (4, led by Phaues) and from the Panopolite nome (8).
In English machine translation
Granary of the boundary district (horiodeiktia) of Karanis, crop of year 2.
Dekaprotos Hermeias. Ammonios son of Papeis, through Nilos,
by the animals of the Kynopolite (nome), through Phaues,
four donkeys, donkeys 4. And
by the animals of the Panopolite (nome), 8.
The dekaprotoi were liturgical officials responsible for collecting grain taxes. 'Horiodeiktia' refers to the boundary district of the village, a term with no exact English equivalent.
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.1.381
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος β ἔτους δεκαπρώτου Ἑρμείου Ἀμμώνιος Παπέιτος διὰ Νίλου διὰ κτηνῶν Κυνοπολίτου διὰ Φαυῆ ὄνους τέσσαρας, ὄνοι δ. καὶ διὰ κτηνῶν Πανοπολείτου η.