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 42221
Receipt for grain transported by donkeys to the granary of Karanis TM 42221probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 2, 294 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording delivery of grain from the harvests of years 8 and 9 into the village granary of Karanis under the dekaprotos Ptolemaios, credited to Ptolemaios son of Kopres. The grain was carried by six donkeys of Narmouthis through Hatous, and the receipt is dated 2 June 294.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, of the dekaprotos Ptolemaios, produce of year 9 and year 8, in the name of Ptolemaios son of Kopres, by the donkeys of Narmouthis, through Hatous: 6 donkeys.
Year 10 and 9 and 2, Pauni 8.
The regnal date 'year 10 and 9 and 2' refers to the joint reign of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. A dekaprotos was a local official responsible for tax collection.
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.1.449
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος δεκαπρώτου Πτολεμαίου γενήματος θ ἔτους καὶ η ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίου Κοπρῆ διὰ κτηνῶν Ναρμούθεως διὰ Ἁτοῦς ὄνους ϛ. ἔτους ι καὶ θ καὶ β Παῦνι η.