Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought to an unknown harbor by an Atisios in the name of a Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42791
Receipt for grain transported by donkey from the granary of Karanis TM 42791probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptSeptember/October, 298 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt from the granary of Karanis recording that 4 donkey-loads of grain of the harvest of regnal year 13/12/5 were delivered in the name of Ptolemaios through Atisios. It is dated in the month Phaophi of year 15/14/7, that is September/October AD 298.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis.
Of the produce of year 13 and 12 and 5,
in the name of Ptolemaios son of Julianus (?), through Atisios, 4 donkeys.
Year 15 and 14 and 7, Phaophi […]
The triple year numbers reflect the joint regnal years of Diocletian, Maximian, and the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. Ioulianos may be a second name of Ptolemaios rather than his father's name.
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.2.912
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος γενήματος ἔτους ιγ ιβ ε ὀνόματος Πτολεμαίου Ἰουλιανοῦ διὰ Ἀτισίου ὄνοι δ. ἔτους ιε ιδ ζ Φαῶφι[…]