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 42304
Receipt for three donkey-loads of grain delivered to the granary of Karanis TM 42304probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMarch 1, 311 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording the delivery of three donkey-loads of grain into the village granary of Karanis, received by the sitologos Kopres and his colleagues, credited to Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios and carried by the animals of Hatres. It covers produce of regnal years 8, 6 and 4 and is dated Phamenoth 5, corresponding to 1 March 311.
In English machine translation
In the granary of the village of Karanis, through Kopres and his associates, sitologoi, of the produce of year 8 and year 6 and year 4, in the name of Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, three donkey-loads, through the animals of Hatres.
Phamenoth 5.
Sitologoi were the village officials in charge of the public granary who received grain paid as tax. The text itself records delivery into the Karanis granary, although the catalogue describes it as transport to an unknown harbor.
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.1.523
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Καρανίδος διὰ Κοπρῆ καὶ τῶν κοινωνῶν σιτολόγων γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους καὶ δ ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίου Πτολεμαίου ὄνους τρεῖς διὰ κτηνῶν Ἁτρῆ. Φαμενὼθ ε.