Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Palemon
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42240
Receipt for grain transport by donkey for the granary of Karanis TM 42240probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 19, 299 A.D.
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A receipt recording that Palemon son of Ptollas delivered grain on two donkeys, his own animals, for the granary of the horiodeiktia of Karanis, under the grain officials (dekaprotoi) Severinus and Andriskos. It is dated 19 January 299 AD, probably at Karanis.
In English machine translation
(Granary) of the boundary district (horiodeiktia) of Karanis, of the dekaprotoi Severinus and Andriskos, of the produce of the 14th year and 13th year and 6th year, by means of private animals, in the name of Palemon son of Ptollas:
2 ⟦1⟧ donkeys, total ⟦1⟧ 2.
Year 15 and 14 and 7, Tybi 24.
The triple regnal years refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. The scribe first wrote one donkey, then corrected it to two.
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.1.466
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος δεκαπρώτων Σεουηρίνου καὶ Ἀνδρίσκου γενήματος ιδ ἔτους καὶ ιγ ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους διὰ ἰδίων κτηνῶν ὀνόματος Παλήμονος Πτολλᾶ ὄνους δύο, γίνονται β. ἔτους ιε καὶ ιδ καὶ ζ Τῦβι κδ.