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 42238
Receipt for transport of grain from the Karanis granary by donkey TM 42238probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptNovember 8, 298 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that five donkey-loads of grain from the Karanis granary, from the harvest of the 13th, 12th and 5th regnal years, were transported in the name of Ptolemaios son of Kopres through Paieous using his own animals. Dated Hathyr 12 of years 15, 14 and 7 (8 November 298), probably from Karanis.
In English machine translation
[From the granary] of the village of Karanis,
[of the produce] of the 13th year and [12th year and] 5th year, in the name of
Ptolemaios son of Kopres, through Paieous,
by means of his own animals, five [donkeys],
total 5 donkeys.
Year 15 and 14 and 7,
Hathyr 12.
The triple regnal years refer to the joint reign of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. The destination harbour is not named.
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.1.464
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματοςιγ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίου Κοπρῆ διὰ Παιηοῦ διὰ κτηνῶν ἰδίων ὄνους πέντε, γίνονται ὄνοι ε. ἔτους ιε καὶ ιδ καὶ ζ Ἁθὺρ ιβ.