Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor
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A fragmentary ostracon receipt recording the transport of grain from the Karanis granary, produce of years 5 and 4, carried on three donkeys through Aeion with the animals of Kaminos. It is dated Mecheir 19 of year 6 and 5, probably 13 February 290 AD, and probably comes from Karanis.
Much of the text is restored from the standard formula of such transport receipts. The double regnal year (6 and 5) points to the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian, which is the basis for the uncertain date.
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.
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδοςγενήματος ε ἔτους καὶ δ ἔτους […]διὰ Ἀειῶνος διὰ κτηνῶν Καμίνου διὰ[…]ὄνους τρεῖς, γίνονται γ. ἔτους ϛ καὶ ε […] Μεχὶρ ιθ.
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