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 42322
Granary receipt for a donkey-load of barley delivered by Ptolemaios TM 42322probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.
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A receipt issued by the village granary of Karanis recording that Ptolemaios son of Panesates delivered one donkey-load of barley from the 2nd indiction's crop, carried on public animals by the donkey-driver Sarmates. It dates to the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, produce of the 2nd indiction.
Ptolemaios son of Panesates has delivered, by means of public animals, through Sarmates, donkey-driver, one donkey-load of barley,
total 1. Pauni 11.
The text itself records delivery to the Karanis granary, though a catalogue description speaks of transport to an unknown harbor. "Public animals" were state-owned donkeys used to haul tax grain.
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.1.542
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος β ἰνδικτίονος ἐνέβαλε Πτολεμαῖος Πανεσάτου διὰ δημοσίων κτηνῶν διὰ Σαρμάτου ὀνηλάτου κριθῆς ὄνον ἕνα, γίνεται α. Παῦνι ια.