Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Agrippinus
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42218
Receipt for grain transported from the granary of Karanis by donkey TM 42218probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptOctober 10, 293 A.D.
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A receipt from the village granary of Karanis recording grain from the harvests of years 8 and 7, delivered under the responsibility of four dekaprotoi in the name of Agrippinus son of Agrippinus. The grain was carried by the sack-carrier Peeous on 2 donkeys supplied from the Oxyrhynchite nome through Ammonas, on 10 October 293.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, of the produce of year 8 and year 7.
Of the dekaprotoi Eutonios and Syrion and Melas and Herakleides, in the name of Agrippinus son of Agrippinus,
through Peeous, sack-carrier, by means of animals of the Oxyrhynchite, through Ammonas, 2 donkeys.
Year 10 and 9 and 2, Phaophi 13.
The dekaprotoi were local officials responsible for collecting grain taxes. The regnal date 'year 10 and 9 and 2' refers to the joint reign of the Tetrarchs Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars.
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.1.446
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους δεκαπρώτων Εὐτονίου καὶ Συρίωνος καὶ Μέλα καὶ Ἡρακλείδου ὀνόματος Ἀγριππίνου Ἀγριππίνου διὰ Πεηοῦ σακκοφόρου διὰ κτηνῶν Ὀξυρυγχίτου διὰ Ἀμμωνᾶ ὄνους β. ἔτους δεκάτου καὶ ἐνάτου καὶ β Φαῶφι ιγ.