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 42204
Receipt for ten donkey-loads of grain from the Karanis granary TM 42204probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 28, 292 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt from the village granary of Karanis recording ten donkey-loads of grain from the harvest of years 7 and 6, credited to Ammonios son of Papeis, delivered through Neilos with donkeys of Dionysias driven by Didas. Dated 28 June AD 292.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village (of the) boundary district of Karanis.
Produce of year 7 and year 6, in the name of Ammonios son of Papeis, through Neilos, by the donkeys of Dionysias, through Didas: ten donkey-loads,
total 10.
Year 8 and 7, Epeiph 4.
The double regnal years (8 and 7) reflect the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian. The abbreviation read as horiodeiktia refers to the granary district of Karanis, and the expansion is not fully certain.
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.1.432
θησαυροῦ κώμης ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ζ ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους ὀνόματος Ἀμμωνίου Παπέιτος διὰ Νείλου διὰ κτηνῶν Διονυσιάδος διὰ Διδᾶ ὄνους δέκα, γίνονται ι. ἔτους η καὶ ζ Ἐπὶφ δ.