Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by Horion, in the name of Ptollas, to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42772
Receipt for donkey transport of grain from the Karanis granary TM 42772probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 23, 291 A.D.
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A short receipt from the granary of Karanis recording that eleven donkey-loads of grain from the harvest of years 6 and 5 were delivered in the name of Ptollas son of Sokrates, through Palemon and Horeion, using donkeys belonging to Nestos. It was issued on 23 January AD 291.
In English machine translation
Granary of the horiodeiktia of Karanis.
Of the produce of the 6th and 5th year, in the name of Ptollas son of Sokrates, through Palemon, by the animals of Nestos (?), through Horeion: donkeys eleven, total 11.
Year 7 and 6, Tybi 28.
Horiodeiktia ("boundary-showing") was a charge or category connected with grain transport from village granaries. "Year 7 and 6" refers to the joint regnal years of Diocletian and Maximian.
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.2.892
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ϛ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολλᾶ Σωκράτους διὰ Παλήμονος διὰ κτηνῶν Νέστου διὰ Ὡρείωνος ὄνοι ἕνδεκα, γίνονται ια. ἔτους ζ καὶ ϛ Τῦβι κη.