Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by a Paesis to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42781
Receipt for grain delivered by donkeys to the granary of Karanis TM 42781probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 2, 297 A.D.
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A receipt recording that three donkeys of the village of Dinnis delivered grain in the name of Paesis to the granary of the boundary district of Karanis. It is dated Tybi 7 of the regnal years 13, 12 and 5 of the Tetrarchic emperors, that is 2 January 297 AD.
In English machine translation
In the granary of the boundary district of Karanis,
of the produce of year 12 and year 11 and year 4,
in the name of Paesis, by the animals of the village
of Dinnis: three donkeys, total 3.
Year 13 and 12 and 5,
Tybi 7.
The triple regnal years refer to Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. The term horiodeiktia refers to the territory of a village or district boundary; the granary was in Karanis' area.
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.2.902
ἐν θησαυρῷ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ιβ ἔτους καὶ ια ἔτους καὶ δ ἔτους ὀνόματος Παησίου διὰ κτηνῶν κώμης Δίννεως ὄνοι τρεῖς, γίνονται γ. ἔτους ιγ καὶ ιβ καὶ ε Τῦβι ζ.