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 42220
Receipt for grain transported by donkey from the granary of Karanis TM 42220probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMay 28, 294 A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording that three donkey-loads of grain from the harvests of years 8 and 9 were delivered from the village granary of Karanis, under the decaprotus Ptolemaios, in the name of Ptolemaios. It is dated 28 May 294, in the reign of Diocletian and his co-emperors.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, decaprotus Ptolemaios, produce of year 9 and year 8, in the name of Ptolemaios son of Kopres(?),
through Ptolemaios, 3 donkeys.
Year 10 and 9 and 2, Pauni 3.
A decaprotus was one of the ten leading men responsible for collecting taxes in kind. The regnal date 'year 10, 9 and 2' counts the years of 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.1.448
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος δεκαπρώτου Πτολεμαίου γενήματος θ ἔτους καὶ η ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίου Κοπρῆ διὰ Πτολεμαίου ὄνους γ. ἔτους ι καὶ θ καὶ β Παῦνι γ.