Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to Leukogion in the name of Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42305
Receipt for transport of wheat from Karanis granary to the harbour of Leukogion TM 42305probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 13, 312 A.D.[?]
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A short ostracon receipt from the granary of Karanis recording that Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios transported 4 donkey-loads of wheat from the produce of year 19 to the harbour of Leukogion, through the donkey-driver Pekysis. It is dated Tybi 17, probably 13 January 312.
In English machine translation
In the granary of the village of Karanis.
Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios has transported to the harbour of Leukogion, from the produce of year 19, through Pekysis, donkey-driver, wheat: 4 donkey-loads.
Tybi 17.
The verb metaballein here is a technical term for transferring grain from the village granary to the river harbour for shipment. The year is uncertain because the text gives only regnal year 19 and the month and day.
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.1.524
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Καρανίδος μετέβαλε Πτολεμαῖος Πτολεμαίου εἰς ὅρμον Λευκογίου γενήματος ιθ ἔτους διὰ Πεκύσιος ὀνηλάτου πυροῦ ὄνους δ. Τῦβι ιζ.