Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought to an unknown harbor by a Chairemon
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42783
Receipt for donkey-loads of grain delivered to the granary of Karanis for Chairemon TM 42783probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 6, 297 A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording that three donkey-loads of grain from the harvests of the 12th, 11th and 4th regnal years were delivered into the granary of the horiodeiktia of Karanis in the name of the veteran Chairemon. It is dated Tybi 11 of the 13th, 12th and 5th years of the joint emperors, 6 January 297.
In English machine translation
Into the granary of the boundary district (horiodeiktia) of Karanis,
of the produce of year 12 and year 11 and year 4,
in the name of Chairemon, veteran,
three donkeys, total 3.
Year 13 and 12 and 5,
Tybi 11.
The triple regnal years reflect the joint rule of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. Horiodeiktia was a fiscal district defined by boundary survey; it has no exact English equivalent.
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.2.904
ἐν θησαυρῷ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ιβ ἔτους καὶ ια ἔτους καὶ δ ἔτους ὀνόματος Χαιρήμονος οὐετρανοῦ ὄνοι τρεῖς, γίνονται γ. ἔτους ιγ καὶ ιβ καὶ ε Τῦβι ια.