Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42300
Receipt for grain delivered to the Karanis granary by five donkeys TM 42300probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptDecember 14, 310 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording delivery of grain into the village granary of Karanis, received by the sitologoi Kopres and Melas and their associates, credited to Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios. The grain, from the harvests of three regnal years, was carried by five donkeys belonging to Kollouthos, on 14 December 310 at Karanis.
In English machine translation
In the granary of the village of Karanis, through Kopres and Melas and their associates, sitologoi, of the produce of the 18th year and the 6th year and the 4th year, in the name of Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, by the animals of Kollouthos, five donkeys, total 5. Choiak 18.
The sitologoi were village officials responsible for receiving grain taxes into the public granary. The triple year date (18th, 6th and 4th years) reflects the overlapping regnal counts of the co-emperors of the Tetrarchic period.
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.1.519
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Καρανίδος διὰ Κοπρῆ καὶ Μέλα καὶ τῶν κοινωνῶν σιτολόγων γενήματος ιη ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους καὶ δ ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίου Πτολεμαίου διὰ κτηνῶν Κολλούθου ὄνους πέντε, γίνονται ε. Χοίακ ιη.