Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain, brought by an Apiris to an unknown harbor
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42808
Receipt for delivery of barley to the granary of Karanis TM 42808probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptFebruary 19[?], 313 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that Apiris son of Ouenaphris delivered two donkey-loads of barley to the granary of Karanis, transported by the animals of Arsinoe, for the harvests of years 8, 6 and 4. It is dated year 9, Mecheir 25, probably AD 313, and comes probably from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
At the granary of the village of Karanis, of the boundary district (horiodeiktia):
Apiris son of Ouenaphris has delivered, by means of the animals of Arsinoe, on account of the produce of year 8 and year 6 and year 4, of barley, two donkey-loads, total 2 donkey-loads.
Year 9, Mecheir 25.
Horiodeiktia refers to a boundary-survey or district category whose exact meaning is debated. The day in the catalogue date (Mecheir 25 corresponds to 19 February) is marked 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.2.929
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Καρανίδος ὁριοδεικτίας μετέβαλεν Ἀπῖρις Οὐενάφρεως διὰ κτηνῶν Ἀρσινόης ὑπὲρ γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους καὶ δ ἔτους κριθῆς ὄνους δύο, γίνονται ὄνοι β. θ ἔτους Μεχεὶρ κε.