Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to Kerke in the name of Sarapammon
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42308
Receipt for barley transported from Karanis granary to the harbour of Kerke TM 42308probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 27, 312 A.D.[?]
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An ostracon receipt recording that Sarapammon son of Horion moved two donkey-loads of barley from the granary at Karanis to the harbour of Kerke, through the agency of Ouenaphris. The barley came from the harvest of year 19, and the receipt is dated Mecheir 1, probably 27 January 312 AD.
In English machine translation
At the granary of the village of Karanis, Sarapammon son of Horion has transferred to the harbour of Kerke, from the produce of year 19, through Ouenaphris, barley: 2 donkey-loads.
Mecheir 1.
Kerke was a Nile harbour where grain from the Fayum villages was collected for shipment. The date is uncertain and rests on interpreting the regnal year 19.
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.1.527
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Καρανίδος μετέβαλεν Σαραπάμμων Ὡρίωνος εἰς ὅρμον Κερκὴ γενήματος ιθ ἔτους διὰ Οὐενάφριος κριθῆς ὄνους β. Μεχεὶρ α.