Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Tiberinus
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42214
Receipt for transport of grain by donkeys from the Karanis granary TM 42214probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMay 28, 293 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt from the granary of Karanis recording that 21 donkey-loads of grain from the harvests of years 7 and 8, credited to Tiberinus, were transported by animals of the Kynopolite nome through Phaues. It is dated 28 May 293.
In English machine translation
Granary of the boundary district (horiodeiktia) of Karanis.
Produce of year 8 and year 7, in the name of Tiberinus, by pack animals of the Kynopolite, through Phaues:
21 donkeys,
total 21.
Year 9 and 8 and 1, Pauni 3.
The triple regnal year (9, 8 and 1) reflects the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. Horiodeiktia was a fiscal district whose granary collected tax grain; the term has no exact English equivalent.
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.1.441
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους ὀνόματος Τιβερίνου διὰ κτηνῶν Κυνοπολίτου διὰ Φαυῆ ὄνους εἴκοσι ἕνα, γίνονται κα. ἔτους ἐνάτου καὶ η καὶ α Παῦνι γ.