Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Ammonios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42178
Receipt for grain transported by five donkeys from the granary at Karanis TM 42178probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptNovember 27, 286 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that Ammonios delivered five donkey-loads of grain from the harvest of year 2 to Papeeis, through Nikas, using the Arsinoite nome's transport donkeys. It is dated 1 Choiak of year 3 and 2 (27 November 286 AD), probably at Karanis.
In English machine translation
Granary of the horiodeiktia of Karanis, crop of year 2.
Ammonios to Papeeis, through Nikas,
by the donkeys of the Arsinoite: five donkeys,
total 5. Year 3 and 2, Choiak 1.
The horiodeiktia was the boundary-survey district of a village, here used for the granary serving Karanis. The double regnal year 'year 3 and 2' refers to the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian.
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.1.409
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος β ἔτους Ἀμμώνιος Παπέει διὰ Νικᾶ διὰ κτηνῶν Ἀρσινοΐτου ὄνους πέντε, γίνονται ε. ἔτους γ καὶ β Χοίακ α.