Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to Kerke
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42286
Receipt for transport of grain from Karanis to the harbour of Kerke TM 42286probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 29, 303 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that a man, son of Sakaon, transferred grain from the granary of Karanis to the river harbour of Kerke by donkey through Kastor. It is dated 29 January AD 303 and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
In the granary of the village of Karanis.
[…] son of Sakaon transferred to the harbour of Kerke
through Kastor […]
donkeys […]
Year 19 and 18 and 11,
Mecheir 4.
The triple regnal year (19, 18 and 11) reflects the joint reigns of the Tetrarchs Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. Kerke was a Nile harbour where Fayum grain was loaded for shipment.
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.1.506
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Καρανίδος μετέβαλεν …ν Σακαῶνος εἰς ὅρμον Κερκὴ διὰ Κάστορος … ὄνους …… ἔτους ιθ καὶ ιη καὶ ια Μεχεὶρ δ.