Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to Leukogion in the name of Didymos
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42321
Receipt for wheat transported from Karanis to the harbour of Leukogion TM 42321either Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, or Leukogion, Herakleopolite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that Didymos son of Ptolemaios delivered eight donkey-loads of wheat from the village granary of Karanis to the harbour of Leukogion. The grain was from the harvest of a second indiction year, and the document dates to the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
From the granary of the village of Karanis, of the produce of the 2nd indiction.
Didymos son of Ptolemaios transferred at the harbour of Leukogion: wheat, eight donkey-loads, total 8.
Hathyr […].
The records leave open whether the ostracon was written at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome or at Leukogion in the Herakleopolite nome. The verb 'transferred' (metebale) refers to unloading grain at the river harbour for onward 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.1.541
ἀπὸ θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος β ἰνδικτίωνος μετέβαλε Δίδυμος Πτολεμαίου ἐν ὅρμῳ Λευκογίου πυροῦ ὄνους ὀκτώ, γίνονται η. Ἁθὺρ[…].