Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Peeous
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42234
Receipt for one donkey load of grain delivered to the granary of Karanis TM 42234probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 2, 298 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that one donkey load of grain from the harvest of the 13th, 12th and 5th regnal years was delivered to the granary for the horiodeiktia of Karanis, by a privately owned animal registered under the name of the sack-carrier Peeous. It is dated 2 June 298 AD.
In English machine translation
(Delivered to) the granary of the horiodeiktia of Karanis, from the produce of the 13th and 12th and 5th year, by means of a private animal (in the) name (of) Peeous, sack-carrier: one donkey, total 1.
Year 14 and 13 and 6, Pauni 8.
The triple year count reflects the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. Horiodeiktia, a grain charge connected with boundary surveying, 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.1.460
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ιγ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους διὰ ἰδίου κτήνους ὀνόματος Πεηοῦ σακκοφόρου ὄνον ἕνα, γίνεται α. ἔτους ιδ καὶ ιγ καὶ ϛ Παῦνι η.