Transportation receipt
Receipt for grain transported by a Pleein
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42655
Receipt for 3 sacks of grain delivered to the granary of Karanis TM 42655probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D. (January 10 (or 20), 252 A.D.[?]) (see note)
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An ostracon receipt recording that Pleein son of Mysthes delivered 3 sacks of grain from the harvests of years 1 and 2 to the granary of Karanis, through the agent Phaesis. It is dated Tybi 14 of year 2, probably AD 252.
In English machine translation
Of the produce of year 2 and year 1, (for the) granary of the boundary district (horiodeiktia) of Karanis, through Phaesis: Pleein son of Mysthes has measured 3 sacks.
Year 2, Tybi 14.
The horiodeiktia was a district defined for the purposes of grain collection; the reading of the abbreviation is somewhat uncertain. The exact day in January 252 (10 or 20) depends on the dating, which is itself only probable.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Transportation receipt). 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.2.777
γενήματος β ἔτους καὶ α ἔτους θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος διὰ Φαήσεως μεμέτρηκεν Πλήειν Μύσθου σάκκους γ. ἔτους β Τῦβι ιδ.