Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Aphrodisios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42257
Receipt for eleven donkey-loads of grain from the granary of Karanis TM 42257probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 4, 300 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording the delivery of eleven donkey-loads of grain from the Karanis granary, under the dekaprotos Leontios, through Aphrodisios son of Ares. The grain was for the harvest of the 15th, 14th and 7th regnal years, and the receipt is dated Tybi 8 of the following year, 4 January AD 300.
In English machine translation
(To) the dekaprotos Leontios, granary of the village of Karanis,
for the produce of the 15th year and 14th year and 7th year,
through Aphrodisios son of Ares,
eleven donkeys, 11.
Year 16 and 15 and 8, Tybi 8.
The triple regnal years refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars (Constantius and Galerius). The dekaprotos was a liturgical official responsible for collecting grain taxes.
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.1.480
δεκαπρώτου Λεοντίου θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος ὑπὲρ γενήματος ιε ἔτους καὶ ιδ ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους διὰ Ἀφροδισίου Ἄρη ὄνους ἕνδεκα, ια. ιϛ ἔτους καὶ ιε ἔτους καὶ η ἔτους Τῦβι η.