Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42266
Receipt for ten donkey-loads of grain from the Karanis granary TM 42266probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptApril 11, 301 A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt from the village granary of Karanis recording ten donkey-loads of grain from the harvests of the 16th, 15th and 8th regnal years, transported in someone's name. It dates to 11 April AD 301, under the Tetrarchy.
In English machine translation
[Granary of the village of Karanis,] produce of the 16th, 15th and 8th years,
[in the name of …] ten donkey-loads, total 10 donkey-loads.
[Year 17 and 16 and 9, Phar]mouthi 16.
The triple regnal year reflects the joint reigns of the Tetrarchs (years of Diocletian and Maximian, and of the Caesars). The name of the person credited is lost, and the description says the grain went to an unknown harbour.
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.1.489
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδοςγενήματος ιϛ ἔτους καὶ ιε ἔτους καὶ η ἔτους ὀνόματος[…]ὄνους δέκα, γίνονται ὄνοι ι. ἔτους ιζ καὶ ιϛ καὶ θ Φαρμοῦθι ιϛ.