Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by a Palemon to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42796
Receipt for 2 donkey-loads of grain delivered to the granary of Karanis TM 42796probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMay 25, 300 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that Palemon son of Palemon delivered 2 donkey-loads of grain to the village granary of Karanis, under the responsibility of the dekaprotoi Philotas and Horion. It is dated by the regnal years of the Tetrarchs, Pachon 30, corresponding to 25 May 300.
In English machine translation
(Delivered) to the granary of the village of the boundary district (?) of Karanis, of the produce of the 15th year and the 14th year and the 7th year, of the dekaprotoi Philotas and Horion,
Palemon son of Palemon, grandson of Ptollas (?): 2 donkey-loads.
Year 16 and 15 and 8, Pachon 30.
The triple year dates (15, 14, 7 and 16, 15, 8) are regnal years of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. The dekaprotoi were local officials responsible for collecting the grain tax; the reading of 'Ptollas' as a grandfather's name 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.2.917
θησαυροῦ κώμης ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ιε ἔτους καὶ ιδ ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους δεκαπρώτων Φιλώτα καὶ Ὡρίωνος Παλήμων Παλήμονος Πτολλᾶ ὄνους β. ἔτους ιϛ καὶ ιε καὶ η Παχὼν λ.