Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought to an unknown harbor by Amaeis in the name of a Ptolemaios and a Valerius, as well as for land without owner
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42774
Receipt for grain transported by donkeys from the granary of Karanis TM 42774probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 28, 293 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording the delivery of grain from the granary of Karanis, produce of years 7 and 8, credited to Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, Valerius son of Teleis, and to ownerless land, through Palemon. The grain was carried by 11 donkeys of Philadelphia under the donkey driver Amaeis, on 28 June 293.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of the boundary district (?) of Karanis.
Of the produce of year 8 and year 7, in the name of Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios and Valerius, whose mother is Teleis, and of ownerless land, through Palemon,
by the donkeys of Philadelphia, through Amaeis:
11 donkeys, total 11.
Year 9 and 8 and 1, Epeiph 4.
The regnal date 'Year 9 and 8 and 1' reflects the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the new Caesars. Horiodeiktia refers to the boundary district of a village; 'ownerless land' (adespotos ge) was land without a registered owner whose taxes were still collected.
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.2.894
θησαυροῦ κώμης ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίου Πτολεμαίου καὶ Οὐαλερίου μητρὸς Τέλειτος καὶ ἀδεσπότου γῆς διὰ Παλήμονος διὰ κτηνῶν Φιλαδελφείας διὰ Ἀμάει ὄνοι ἕνδεκα, γίνονται ια. ἔτους ἐνάτου καὶ η καὶ α Ἐπεὶφ δ.