Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by a Horion to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42787
Receipt for grain transported by donkey from the granary of Karanis TM 42787probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptFebruary 10 or August 9, 267 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording the delivery of grain from the year-13 harvest from the granary of Karanis, transported on seventeen donkeys in the name of Horion son of Alexander, under the responsibility of the dekaprotos Kyrillos, a former gymnasiarch. It is dated year 14, day 16 of a month beginning Me-, in AD 267.
In English machine translation
Granary of Karanis, produce of year 13, (through) the dekaprotos Kyrillos, former gymnasiarch, by the animals of Perkeesis (?), in the name of Horion son of Alexander:
seventeen donkeys, total 17.
Year 14, Me[…] 16.
The month name is only partly legible (Mecheir or Mesore), hence the two possible dates. A dekaprotos was a local official responsible for collecting grain taxes.
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.2.908
θησαυροῦ Καρανίδος γενήματος ιγ ἔτους δεκαπρώτου Κυρίλλου γυμνασιαρχήσαντος διὰ κτηνῶν Περκεήσεως ὀνόματος Ὡρίωνος Ἀλεξάνδρου ὄνοι δεκαεπτά, γίνονται ιζ. ἔτους ιδ Με… ιϛ.