Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42211
Receipt for donkey transport of grain from the granary of Karanis TM 42211probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMarch 29, 293 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt from the granary of Karanis recording that 8 donkey-loads of grain from the harvests of years 7 and 8 were delivered in the name of Ptolemaios son of Kopres, through the donkey driver Peeous. It is dated Pharmouthi 3 of year 9 and 8, that is 29 March 293, and probably comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, dekaprotos Ptolemaios, produce of year 8
and year 7, in the name of Ptolemaios son of Kopres,
through Peeous, 8 donkeys.
Year 9 and 8,
Pharmouthi 3.
The dekaprotos was a local official responsible for collecting grain taxes. The double regnal year (9 and 8) reflects 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.1.439
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος δεκαπρώτου Πτολεμαίου γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίυ Κοπρῆ διὰ Πεηοῦ ὄνους η. ἔτους ἐνάτου καὶ η Φαρμοῦθι γ.