Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Apynchis
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42170
Receipt for four sacks of grain transported by camel to the Karanis granary TM 42170probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that Apynchis son of Kopres delivered four sacks of grain from the harvest of year 7 to the granary of the Karanis district, carried on the camels of Psenyris. It is dated Mecheir 19 and comes from the Arsinoite nome, probably Karanis, in the late 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
Of the produce of year 7, to the granary of the boundary district (horiodeiktia) of Karanis: Apynchis son of Kopres, by the camels of Psenyris, four sacks, total 4. Mecheir 19.
Horiodeiktia was a land-survey or boundary district used as a unit for grain collection; there is no exact English equivalent. The grain may have been destined for a harbor rather than a local granary.
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.1.401
γενήματος ζ ἔτουςθησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος Ἀπύγχις Κοπρῆ διὰ καμήλων Ψενύρεως σάκκους τέσσαρας, γίνονται δ. Μεχεὶρ ιθ.