Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor in the name of Isidoros
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 44455
Receipt for grain transported by donkey from the granary of Karanis TM 44455probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptFebruary 2, 289 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt from the village granary of Karanis recording that two donkey-loads of grain from the harvests of years 4 and 3, credited to Isidoros son of Agrippinos, were transported by the animals of Psentheos through Saron. It is dated 2 February AD 289.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village (horiodeiktia) of Karanis.
Of the produce of year 4 and year 3, in the name of Isidoros son of Agrippinos, by the animals of Psentheos, through Saron, two donkeys, total 2 donkeys.
Year 5 and 4, Mecheir 8.
Horiodeiktia refers to the village's boundary district for which the granary was responsible. The double regnal year refers to the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian.
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.1.418
θησαυροῦ κώμης ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος δ ἔτους καὶ γ ἔτους ὀνόματος Ἰσιδώρου Ἀγριππίνου διὰ κτηνῶν Ψενθεῶ διὰ Σάρωνος ὄνους δύο, γίνονται ὄνοι β. ἔτους ε καὶ δ Μεχεὶρ η.