Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to Kerke in the name of Ptollas
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42303
Receipt for wheat transported from the Karanis granary to the harbour of Kerke TM 42303probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptFebruary 6, 311 A.D.
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Receipt from the granary at Karanis recording that Ptollas son of Sarapion sent 2 donkey-loads of wheat from the year 18 harvest to the harbour of Kerke, carried by the donkey-driver Dioskoros. It is dated 6 February AD 311.
In English machine translation
In the granary of the village of Karanis, of the produce of year 18, Ptollas son of Sarapion transferred to the harbour of Kerke through Dioskoros, donkey-driver, wheat: 2 donkey-loads.
Year 19 and 7 and 5 and 2, Mecheir 12.
The date uses the joint regnal years of four emperors (19, 7, 5 and 2), as was usual under the Tetrarchy. Kerke was a Nile harbour where grain from the Arsinoite nome 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.1.522
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος ιη ἔτους μετέβαλε Πτολλᾶς Σαραπίωνος εἰς ὅρμον Κερκὴ διά Διοσκόρου ὀνηλάτου πυροῦ ὄνους β. ἔτους ιθ καὶ ζ καὶ ε καὶ β Μεχεὶρ ιβ.