Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of the councillor Tiberinus
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42326
Receipt for wheat transported by donkey for the councillor Tiberinus TM 42326probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording deliveries of wheat from the village granary of Karanis made in the name of the town councillor Tiberinus, carried by the donkey-driver Sotas. It lists three consignments of 10, 18 and 12 donkey-loads in the month of Mecheir, in the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[At the granary of the village of K]aranis,
[of the produce of the] […] [indic]tion, [Tiberinus, councillor,] transferred by delivery with pack animals
[through Sotas, donkey-driver,] 10 donkey-loads of wheat, total 10 donkey-loads.
[And on Mecheir] 15, Tiberinus, councillor, through
[the s]ame donkey-driver, 18 donkey-loads, total 18 donkey-loads.
For Mecheir 15 and Mecheir 17, through the
same donkey-driver Sotas, 12 donkey-loads of wheat,
total 12 donkey-loads. Mecheir 17.
The name and title of Tiberinus and the donkey-driver Sotas in the opening lines are restored from their occurrence later in the text. A 'donkey' here is a donkey-load, a standard unit of 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.1.546
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος[…]ἰνδικτίονος μετέβαλεν Τιβερῖνος βουλευτὴς διὰ κτηνῶν καταγωγῆς διὰ Σώτα ὀνηλάτου πυροῦ ὄνους δέκα, γίνονται ὄνοι ι. καὶ Μεχεὶρ ιε Τιβερῖνος βουλευτὴς διὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ὀνηλάτου ὄνους δεκαοκτώ, γίνονται ὄνοι ιη. εἰς Μεχεὶρ ιε καὶ Μεχεὶρ ιζ διὰ το…