Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought to an unknown harbor by a Palemon in the name of a Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42790
Receipt for a donkey-load of grain at the Karanis granary TM 42790probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 17, 298 A.D.
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A receipt from the granary of the horiodeiktia at Karanis recording one donkey-load of grain from the harvest of the regnal years 13, 12 and 5, credited to Ptolemaios son of Demetrous and brought by the donkey-driver Palemon. It is dated Pauni 23 of years 14, 13 and 6, that is 17 June 298, probably at Karanis.
In English machine translation
Granary of the horiodeiktia of Karanis.
Produce of year 13 and year 12 and year 5, in the name of Ptolemaios son of Demetrous, through Sataboüs, through Kastor, through Palemon, donkey-driver: 1 donkey, total 1.
Year 14 and 13 and 6, Pauni 23.
The triple regnal years refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian (years 14 and 13) and the Caesars (year 6). The horiodeiktia was a district or tax category associated with boundary-marking, and the term 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.
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θησαυροῦ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ιγ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίου Δημητροῦτος διὰ Σαταβοῦ διὰ Κάστορος διὰ Παλήμονος ὀνηλάτου ὄνος εἷς, γίνεται α. ἔτους ιδ καὶ ιγ καὶ ϛ Παῦνι κγ.