Account of Deliveries in Kind
Account of the incomes and outcomes of grain(?)
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 4248
Account of deliveries in kind, with consignments to the city TM 4248probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIInd century B.C.
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An ostracon account recording deliveries in kind, probably grain, made on various days in the months Thoth and Phaophi through named individuals, with some quantities sent "to the city". It probably comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome (Fayum).
In English machine translation
Of the individual collection (?). Thoth 17, delivered:
through Isis daughter of Horos 2
19th, likewise, another 2 1/6
through Petesis son of Horos 2
Phaophi 4
Harpakysis son of Menandros 1 1/12 (?)
5th, to the city 4
[…] 4, to the city 2
[…] to the city 3 1/6
The commodity and units are not stated; the records suggest grain. "The city" probably means the nome capital or Alexandria, and the expansion of the opening abbreviation as "collection" is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Deliveries in Kind). 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.4.1118
Ἀπαιτήσεως κατʼ ἄνδρα. Θὼθ ιζ παρηνέχθησαν διὰ Ἴσιτος Ὥρου β ιθ ὁμοίως ἄλλαι β ϛ διὰ Πετῆσι Ὥρου β Φαῶφι δ Ἁρπακῦσις Μενάνδρου α ιβ ε εἰς πόλιν δ […]… δ εἰς πόλιν β […]… εἰς πόλιν γ ϛ