Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Apres alias Onnophris
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42205
Receipt for four sacks of grain delivered to the granary of Karanis TM 42205probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptSeptember 6, 292 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that Apres alias Onnophris, son of Onnophris, delivered four sacks of grain through Ptolemaios to the village granary of Karanis from the harvests of years 4 and 5. It is dated Thoth 9 of regnal years 9 and 8, that is 6 September 292, probably at Karanis.
In English machine translation
(Delivered) to the granary of the village of Karanis, by boundary-district (?), from the produce of year 5 and year 4: Apres alias Onnophris, son of Onnophris, through Ptolemaios, four sacks,
sacks 4. Year 9 and 8, Thoth 9.
The abbreviation ὁριοδ(εικτίας) refers to a boundary-delimited district used in grain collection, with no exact English equivalent. The double regnal year (9 and 8) reflects the joint reigns 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.1.433
θησαυροῦ κώμης ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ε ἔτους δ ἔτους Ἀπρῆς ὁ καὶ Ὀννῶφρις Ὀννώφριος διὰ Πτολεμαίου σάκκους τέσσαρας, σάκκοι δ. ἔτους θ καὶ η Θὼθ θ.