Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought to an unknown harbor by a Kastor in the name of a Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42786
Receipt for transport of grain by donkey from the granary of Karanis TM 42786probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt297/298 A.D. (June 17, 298 A.D.[?])
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A short receipt on an ostracon recording that one donkey-load of grain from the produce of the 13th, 12th and 5th regnal years was delivered from the granary of Karanis by the donkeys of Ptolemais Nea, in the name of Ptolemaios son of Demetrous, through Satabous and Kastor. It dates to about AD 297/298, probably from Karanis.
In English machine translation
Granary of the horiodeiktia of Karanis,
produce of year 13 and year 12 and year 5,
by the donkeys of Ptolemais Nea, in the name of
Ptolemaios son of Demetrous,
through Satabous, through Kastor:
one donkey, total 1.
Year 14 and 13 and 6,
[…] 23.
Horiodeiktia was a levy connected with boundary-marking of land, here naming the granary account. The triple regnal years reflect the joint reigns of the Tetrarchy (Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars).
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.2.907
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ιγ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους διὰ κτηνῶν Πτολεμαίδος Νέας ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίου Δημητροῦτος διὰ Σαταβοῦ διὰ Κάστορος ὄνος εἷς, γίνεται α. ἔτους ιδ καὶ ιγ καὶ ϛ […]… κγ.