Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42171
Receipt for transport of grain from the Karanis granary TM 42171probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording the transport of 19 sacks of grain from the granary of Karanis by public pack animals under the dekaprotos Ammonios, credited to Ptolemaios son of Julianus. The grain was from the harvest of year 7 and the receipt is dated year 1, Pharmouthi 18, in the late 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, by public donkeys (?) of the dekaprotos Ammonios, in the name of Ptolemaios son of Julianus, of the produce of year 7:
19 sacks.
Year 1, Pharmouthi 18.
The dekaprotos was a liturgical official responsible for collecting grain taxes. The abbreviated word for the animals is literally 'beasts of burden', usually donkeys.
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.1.402
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος διὰ δημοσίων κτηνῶν δεκαπρώτου Ἀμμωνίου ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίου Ἰουλιανοῦ γενήματος ζ ἔτους σάκκους δεκαεννέα . ἔτους α Φαρμοῦθι ιη.