Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain, brought to Leukogion by a Pateus
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42810
Receipt for barley transported from Karanis to the harbour of Leukogion TM 42810either Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, or Leukogion, Herakleopolite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D. (November 23/24)
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A short receipt on an ostracon recording that Pateus son of Kallonios delivered three donkey-loads of barley from the granary of Karanis to the harbour of Leukogion for the 5th indiction. It is dated Hathyr 27, probably in the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
(Granary) of Karanis. Pateus son of Kallonios has transferred, for the 5th indiction, at the harbour of Leukogion, 3 donkey-loads of barley, total 3 donkey-loads.
Hathyr 27.
The records leave open whether the receipt was written at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome or at Leukogion, the Herakleopolite harbour where the grain was delivered. The verb translated 'transferred' (metaballein) is the technical term for handing grain over at a harbour for onward shipment.
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.2.931
θησαυροῦ Καρανίδος μετέβαλεν Πατεῦς Καλλωνίου ὑπὲρ ε ἰνδικτίονος ἐν ὅρμῳ Λευκογίου κριθῆς ὄνους γ, γίνονται ὄνοι γ Ἁθὺρ κζ.