Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought to an unknown harbor by a Paesis in the name of Ammonianos, veteran
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42782
Receipt for a sack of grain delivered for the veteran Ammonianos TM 42782probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 5, 266[?] A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording the delivery of 1 sack of grain from the year-12 harvest of Karanis, credited to the veteran Ammonianos. It was brought by Paesis from Perkeesis on Tybi 10 of year 13, probably AD 266.
In English machine translation
Of Karanis, of the produce of year 12.
Ammonianos, veteran,
1 sack,
Year 13, Tybi 10,
through Paesis from
Perkeesis.
Perkeesis is a village of the Arsinoite nome. The receipt records grain transport, and the harbor where it was delivered is not named.
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.2.903
Καρανίδος γενήματος ιβ ἔτους Ἀμμωνιανὸς οὐετρανὸς σάκκον α, ἔτους ιγ Τῦβι ι, διὰ Παησίου ἀπὸ Περκεήσεως.