Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by a Horion to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42751
Receipt for grain transported by donkeys from Kerkesoucha TM 42751probably Kerkesoucha, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Late) IIIrd century A.D. (April 9)
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A short ostracon receipt recording that Horion son of Alexandros delivered, with 4 donkeys belonging to Areus, grain from the year 1 harvest assessed under the horiodeiktia of Kerkesoucha. It is dated Pharmouthi 14 of year 2 (9 April), in the late 3rd century AD, probably at Kerkesoucha in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Of the produce of year 1, of the horiodeiktia of Kerkesoucha,
by the animals of Areus: Horion
son of Alexandros, 4 donkeys. Year 2,
Pharmouthi 14.
Horiodeiktia was a levy or surcharge connected with the survey and demarcation of land boundaries; the grain was delivered under this heading. Such receipts typically record transport of tax grain to a granary or harbor.
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.2.873
γενήματος ἔτους α ὁριοδεικτίας Κερκεσούχων διὰ κτηνῶν Ἄρεως Ὡρίων Ἀλεξάνδρου ὄνοι δ. ἔτους β Φαρμοῦθι ιδ.