Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Sarapion
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42196
Receipt for donkey transport of grain to the granary at Karanis TM 42196probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 22, 291 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that 21 donkey-loads of grain from the harvest of years 6 and 5, credited to Sarapion son of Makrinos, were delivered to the granary of the horiodeiktia at Karanis by animals from the Kynopolite nome under Paues. It dates to 22 January AD 291.
In English machine translation
Granary of the boundary-survey (horiodeiktia) of the village of Karanis.
Produce of year 6 and year 5, in the name of Sarapion son of Makrinos, by the animals of the Kynopolite, through Paues: twenty-one donkeys,
total 21 donkeys.
Year 7 and 6, Tybi 27.
The horiodeiktia was a boundary survey of land. Here it names a granary or account, and its exact meaning in such receipts is uncertain. The double regnal years (7 and 6) refer 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.1.425
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος ϛ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους ὀνόματος Σαραπίωνος Μακρίνου διὰ κτηνῶν Κυνοπολίτου διὰ Παυῆ ὄνους εἴκοσι ἕνα, γίνονται ὄνοι κα. ἔτους ζ καὶ ϛ Τῦβι κζ.