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 42209
Receipt for transport of grain from the granary of Karanis by donkey TM 42209probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMarch 29, 293 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that 14 donkey-loads of grain from the Karanis village granary, produce of the 8th and 7th regnal years, were transported in the name of Ammonios son of Papeis. The dekaprotos Ptolemaios is named, and the transport was handled through Neilos and Anamoun with animals of Ibion driven by Sarmates. It is dated 29 March 293 AD, probably at Karanis.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, dekaprotos Ptolemaios, of the produce of the 8th and 7th year, in the name of Ammonios son of Papeis, through Neilos and Anamoun, by means of the animals of Ibion, through Sarmates: 14 donkeys.
Year ninth and 8th, Pharmouthi 3.
The double regnal year (9th and 8th) reflects the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian. A dekaprotos was a local official responsible for tax collection in kind; 'Ibion' may be a place name (an animal station) rather than a person.
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.1.437
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος δεκαπρώτου Πτολεμαίου γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους ὀνόματος Ἀμμωνίου Παπέιτος διὰ Νίλου καὶ Ἀναμοῦν διὰ κτηνῶν Ἰβιῶνος διὰ Σαρμάτου ὄνους ιδ. ἔτους ἐνάτου καὶ η Φαρμοῦθι γ.