Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by Ptollas, son of Sokrates, to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42771
Receipt for grain transported by donkey to the granary of Karanis TM 42771probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMarch 28, 290 A.D.
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A receipt recording the delivery of grain from the harvest of the 4th and 5th regnal years to the granary of the Karanis district, carried on 12 donkey-loads by the animals of Ptollas son of Sokrates through Palemon, credited in the name of Nikolaos. It dates to 28 March 290, probably from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
To the granary of the village of the boundary district of Karanis, of the produce of the 5th and 4th year, by means of the pack-animals of the Arsinoite nome, in the name of Nikolaos, (the donkeys of) Ptollas son of Sokrates, through Palemon: 7 donkeys; and on account of ownerless […] land that has been uncovered: 5 donkeys; total together: 12 donkeys.
Year 6 and 5, Pharmouthi 2.
The double regnal year (6 and 5) reflects the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian. The 'uncovered land' (apokalyphtheisa ge) is newly surveyed or re-emerged land, here with ownerless land credited separately.
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.2.891
θησαυροῦ κώμης ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ε ἔτους καὶ δ ἔτους διὰ κτηνῶν Ἀρσινοείτου Νεικολάου ὀνόματος Πτολλᾶ Σωκράτους διὰ Παλήμονος ὄνοι ἑπτὰ καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀδεσπότου … ἀποκαλυφθείσης γῆς ὄνοι πέντε , γίνονται ὁμοῦ ὄνοι ιβ. ἔτους ϛ καὶ ε Φαρμοῦθι β.