Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Horos
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42186
Receipt for grain transport by donkeys from the granary of Karanis TM 42186probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 7, 289 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt from the village granary of Karanis recording that Horos, son of Ameis, had grain from the harvest of the 4th and 3rd regnal years carried by 13 donkeys of the Oxyrhynchite nome, through an agent named Publius. It is dated Tybi 12 of year 5 and 4, that is 7 January 289 AD.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis.
Of the produce of year 4 and year 3, Horos, his mother being Ameis, by the animals of the Oxyrhynchite (nome), through Publius:
13 donkeys, total 13.
Year 5 and 4, Tybi 12.
The double regnal year (5 and 4) refers to the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian. The donkeys are described as belonging to the Oxyrhynchite nome, apparently a requisitioned transport team.
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.1.416
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος δ ἔτους καὶ γ ἔτους Ὧρος μητρὸς Ἀμεῖτος διὰ κτηνῶν Ὀξυρυγχίτου διὰ Πουπλίου ὄνους δεκατρεῖς, γίνονται ιγ. ἔτους ε καὶ δ Τῦβι ιβ.