Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Ptollas
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42243
Receipt for grain transported by donkeys from the Karanis granary TM 42243probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptFebruary 16, 299 A.D.
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A receipt from the granary of Karanis, under the dekaprotoi Severinus and Andriskos, recording grain of past harvest years delivered on private donkeys in the name of Ptollas son of Sarapion. It counts two donkey-loads and then one more on the 20th, three in all, and is dated 16 February AD 299.
In English machine translation
Granary of the boundary district (horiodeiktia) of Karanis, of the dekaprotoi Severinus and Andriskos.
Of the produce of the 14th, 13th and 6th year, by means of private animals,
in the name of Ptollas son of Sarapion:
2 donkeys, total 2.
And on the 20th the same man, another 1 donkey, total 3.
Year 15 and 14 and 7, Mecheir 22.
The triple regnal years (15, 14 and 7) refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. Dekaprotoi were local officials responsible for tax grain collection.
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.1.469
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος δεκαπρώτων Σεουηρίνου καὶ Ἀνδρίσκου γενήματος ιδ ἔτους καὶ ιγ ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους διὰ κτηνῶν ἰδίων ὀνόματος Πτολλᾶ Σαραπίωνος ὄνους δύο, γίνονται β. καὶ τῇ κ ὁ αὐτὸς ἄλλον ὄνον ἕνα, γίνονται γ. ἔτους ιε καὶ ιδ καὶ ζ Μεχεὶρ κβ.