Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Melas
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42239
Receipt for a donkey-load of grain delivered to the Karanis granary TM 42239probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptDecember 27, 298 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording one donkey-load of grain delivered to the granary of the Karanis district, under the dekaprotoi Severinus and Andriskos, credited to Melas son of Horos. It is dated Tybi 1 of the joint regnal years 15, 14 and 7 (27 December 298) and probably comes from Karanis.
In English machine translation
For the granary of the boundary district of Karanis, of the dekaprotoi Severinus and Andriskos, of the produce of the 14th year and 13th year and 6th year, in the name of Melas son of Horos: one donkey(-load), total 1.
Year 15 and 14 and 7, Tybi 1.
The triple year numbers refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. Dekaprotoi were local officials responsible for collecting grain taxes; the reference to the produce years is partly restored.
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.1.465
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος δεκαπρώτων Σεουηρίνου καὶ Ἀνδρίσκου γενήματος ιδ ἔτους καὶ ιγ ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους ὀνόματος Μέλας Ὥρου ὄνον ἕνα, γίνεται α. ἔτους ιε καὶ ιδ καὶ ζ Τῦβι α.