Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to Leukogion by Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42325
Receipt for a donkey-load of barley delivered at the harbour of Leukogion TM 42325either Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, or Leukogion, Herakleopolite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.
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A receipt recording that Ptolemaios son of Kopres delivered one donkey-load of barley from the granary of Karanis at the harbour of Leukogion, from the produce of the 5th indiction. It is dated Hathyr 20 and belongs to the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
Granary of Karanis.
⟨Of the produce⟩ of the 5th indiction.
Ptolemaios son of Kopres has delivered
at the harbour of Leukogion
one donkey-load of barley, [total 1].
Hathyr 20.
The records do not settle whether the ostracon was written at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome or at Leukogion in the Herakleopolite nome. The verb metebalen (literally 'transferred') refers to unloading or transferring grain for river transport.
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.1.545
θησαυροῦ Καρανίδος γενήματος ε ἰνδικτίωνος μετέβαλεν Πτολεμαῖος Κοπρῆ ἐν ὅρμῳ Λευκογίου κριθῆς ὄνον ἕνα, γίνεται α. Ἁθὺρ κ.