Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Neas
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42311
Receipt for grain transported by donkey from the granary of Karanis TM 42311probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptDecember 20, 312 A.D.[?]
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An ostracon receipt from the village granary of Karanis, issued through the grain officials Horion and his partner, recording one and a half donkey-loads of grain credited to Neas from the harvests of years 8, 6 and 4. The grain was carried by the animals of Antoninus, probably on 20 December 312.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, (account) of the citizens (?), through the sitologoi Horion and partner, of the crop of year 8 and year 6 and year 4, in the name of Neas, one and a half donkey(-loads), total 1 1/2.
Through the animals of Antoninus.
Choiak 24.
The sitologoi were the officials in charge of the public granaries; 'citizens' (politōn) probably refers to grain owed by or credited to metropolitan citizens. The resolution of the abbreviation as 'donkey(-loads)' is the editor's.
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.1.530
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος πολιτῶν διὰ σιτολόγων Ὡρίωνος καὶ κοινωνοῦ γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους καὶ δ ἔτους ὀνόματος Νεᾶτος ὄνον ἕνα ἥμισυ, γίνονται α 𐅵. διὰ κτηνῶν Ἀντωνίνου. Χοίακ κδ.