Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Amoules
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42232
Receipt for one donkey-load of grain delivered for Amoules son of Pekysis TM 42232probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMay 31, 298 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording the delivery of one donkey-load of grain to the granary at Karanis, credited to Amoules son of Pekysis and carried by the donkey-driver Tiberinus. It is dated Pauni 6 of a triple regnal year, corresponding to 31 May 298 AD.
In English machine translation
(Delivered) to the granary of the horiodeiktia of Karanis, of the produce of year 13 and year 12 and year 5, in the name of Amoules son of Pekysis, through Tiberinus, donkey-driver: one donkey(-load), total 1.
Year 14 and 13 and 6, Pauni 6.
The triple regnal years refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. Horiodeiktia was a tax or levy connected with boundary-marking, here apparently paid in grain.
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.1.459
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίαςΚαρανίδος γενήματος ιγ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους ὀνόματος Ἀμουλῆ Πεκύσιοςδιὰ Τιβερίνου ὀνηλάτου ὄνον ἕνα, γίνεται α. ἔτους ιδ καὶ ιγ καὶ ϛ Παῦνι ϛ.