Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought to an unknown harbor by an Arabikos in the name of a Ptollas
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42788
Receipt for grain transported by donkey for the horiodeiktia of Karanis TM 42788probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 4, 298 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt for a delivery of grain from the harvests of several regnal years, credited to Ptollas son of Sokrates and carried by Arabikos on one privately owned donkey. It is dated Pauni 10 of years 14, 13 and 6 (4 June 298), probably at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
(Granary) of the horiodeiktia of Karanis.
Of the produce of year 13 and year 12 and year 5, in the name of Ptollas son of Sokrates, through Arabikos, by means of private animals: one donkey, 1 (?).
Year 14 and 13 and 6, Pauni 10.
The triple regnal years refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. Horiodeiktia was a charge connected with the survey and marking of land boundaries; the exact sense here is uncertain.
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.2.909
θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ιγ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολλᾶ Σωκράτους διὰ Ἀραβικοῦ διὰ κτηνῶν ἰδίων ὄνος εἷς, α. ἔτους ιδ καὶ ιγ καὶ ϛ Παῦνι ι.