Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Horos
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42255
Receipt for one donkey-load of grain from the granary of Karanis TM 42255probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptNovember 17, 299 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt from the village granary of Karanis, under the dekaprotoi Severinus and Andriskos, recording one donkey-load of grain transported in the name of Horos, son of Ameis. It is dated Hathyr 20 of the joint regnal years 16, 15 and 8, that is 17 November 299.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, of the dekaprotoi Severinus and Andriskos, of the produce of the 15th and 14th and 7th year, in the name of Horos, his mother being Ameis:
one donkey(-load), total 1.
Year 16 and 15 and 8, Hathyr 20.
The triple year numbers are the joint regnal years of the Tetrarchic emperors (Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars). The 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.1.479
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος δεκαπρώτων Σεουηρίνου καὶ Ἀνδρίσκου γενήματος ιε ἔτους καὶ ιδ καὶ ζ ἔτους ὀνόματος Ὧρου μητρὸς Ἀμεῖτος ὄνον ἕνα, γίνεται α. ἔτους ιϛ καὶ ιε καὶ η Ἁθὺρ κ.