Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Tiberinus
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42276
Receipt for five donkey-loads of grain from the granary of Karanis TM 42276probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMarch 24, 302 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt from the village granary of Karanis, under the decaprotus Gerontios, recording five donkey-loads of grain from the harvests of regnal years 17, 16 and 9, delivered in the name of Tiberinus, a former gymnasiarch. Dated 24 March 302.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, of the decaprotus Gerontios, produce of the 17th year and 16th year and ninth year, in the name of Tiberinus, former gymnasiarch: five donkey-loads.
Year 18 and 17 and 10, Phamenoth 28.
The triple regnal years refer to the Tetrarchic emperors (Diocletian and Maximian, Constantius and Galerius). A decaprotus was a local 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.1.499
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος δεκαπρώτου Γεροντίου γενήματος ιζ ἔτους καὶ ιϛ ἔτους καὶ ἐνάτου ἔτους ὀνόματος Τιβερίνου γυμνασιαρχήσαντος ὄνους πέντε . ἔτους ιη καὶ ιζ καὶ ι Φαμενὼθ κη.