Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by a Seuthes to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42776
Receipt for grain transport by donkey from the granary of Karanis TM 42776probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptFebruary 24, 295 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that Seuthes son of Ptolemaios transported grain from the village granary of Karanis with four of his own donkeys. The grain was produce of the regnal years 10, 9 and 2, and the receipt is dated Mecheir 30 of years 11, 10 and 3, that is 24 February AD 295.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis.
Of the produce of the 10th and 9th and 2nd year, by means of his own animals, Seuthes son of Ptolemaios, four donkeys, total 4 donkeys.
Year 11 and 10 and 3, Mecheir 30.
The triple regnal years refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. Receipts of this type record donkey loads carried from the village granary to a harbor for shipment.
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.2.896
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος ι ἔτους καὶ θ ἔτους καὶ β ἔτους διὰ κτηνῶν ἰδίων Σεύθης Πτολεμαίου ὄνους τέσσαρας, γίνονται ὄνοι δ. ἔτους ια καὶ ι καὶ γ Μεχεὶρ λ.