Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to Kerke in the name of Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42296
Receipt for barley transported from Karanis to the harbor of Kerke TM 42296probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMarch 4, 299 or 308 A.D.[?]
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An ostracon receipt recording that Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios sent 4 donkey-loads of barley from the village granary of Karanis to the harbor of Kerke, carried by the donkey-driver Antonius. It concerns the harvest of year 19 and is dated Phamenoth 8, probably 4 March 299 or 308 AD.
In English machine translation
At the granary of the village of Karanis, Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios transferred to the harbor of Kerke, from the produce of year 19, by Antonius the donkey-driver, barley, 4 donkey-loads.
Phamenoth 8.
Kerke was a Nile harbor where grain from Fayum villages was collected for shipment. The catalogue summary speaks of grain generally, but the text specifies barley.
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.1.515
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Καρανίδος μετέβαλεν Πτολεμαῖος Πτολεμαίου εἰς ὅρμον Κερκὴ γενήματος ιθ ἔτους διὰ Ἀντωνίου ὀνηλάτου κριθῆς ὄνους δ. Φαμενὼθ η.