Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Neilos
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42265
Receipt for grain transport by donkeys from the granary of Karanis TM 42265probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptApril 1, 301 A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording grain carried from the granary of Karanis by four donkeys, entered in the name of Neilos. It is dated Pharmouthi 6 of the regnal years 17, 16 and 9, that is 1 April AD 301.
In English machine translation
[Granary of the village of Ka]ranis, produce of year 16 [and year 15 and] year 8, in the name of Neilos
[…] four [donkeys], total 4 donkeys.
[Year 17 and 16] and 9, Pharmouthi 6.
The triple year count refers to the co-emperors of the Tetrarchy (Diocletian and Maximian, Constantius and Galerius). The harbour to which the grain was taken is not preserved.
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.1.488
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος ιϛ ἔτους καὶ ιε ἔτους καὶ η ἔτους ὀνόματος Νείλου […]ὄνους τέσσαρας, γίνονται ὄνοι δ. ἔτους ιζ καὶ ιϛ καὶ θ Φαρμοῦθι ϛ.